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cooker

noun
/ˈkʊkɚ/US/ˈkʊkə/UK/ˈkɵkə/

Etymology

From cook + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (patient suffix) (apple; one who is cooked).

Definitions

  1. A cookstove.

  2. An appliance or utensil for cooking food.

  3. One who cooks.

    • […] I am a true † cooker of men, that is to ſay, I not only dreſs and prepare ſuch vile eatables as theſe, but that green creature, called man, I kill, and cut in pieces, aye, and devour him too, heart and all.
    • And, if we may believe the tale, / Her canny hand will ſcarcely fail, / Whate’er ſhe tries, to help or heal, / She’ll ſeldom blunder; / If ſhe be cooker of the kail, / She’ll gar us wonder.
    • She was, in sooth, a most delicious cooker of delicious tit-bits.
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. Ellipsis of cooking apple.

      • For the British market, apples are classed as early, mid-season, or late, and subdivided into eaters or cookers.

    2. A person who makes or uses illicit drugs, especially methamphetamine or cannabis.

    3. The container in which recreational drugs are prepared.

      • […] does not know how to pick up the liquid from the cooker, and he asks someone else to use his rig to put his part in his rig.

    4. A person who is cooked in the head

      A person who is cooked in the head; a crazy person.

    5. A conspiracy theorist, especially one who is involved in politics.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at cooker. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at cooker. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at cooker

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA