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Synonyms for cook up

Grammar : Verb
Spell : koo k
Phonetic Transcription : kÊŠk

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Définition of cook up

Origin :
  • Old English coc, from Vulgar Latin cocus "cook," from Latin coquus, from coquere "to cook, prepare food, ripen, digest, turn over in the mind" from PIE root *pekw- "to cook" (cf. Oscan popina "kitchen," Sanskrit pakvah "cooked," Greek peptein, Lithuanian kepti "to bake, roast," Old Church Slavonic pecenu "roasted," Welsh poeth "cooked, baked, hot"). Germanic languages had no one native term for all types of cooking, and borrowed the Latin word (Old Saxon kok, Old High German choh, German Koch, Swedish kock).
  • There is the proverb, the more cooks the worse potage. [Gascoigne, 1575]
  • verb devise
Example sentences :
  • Say, on the dead, wasn't that a plot for an amateur to cook up?
  • Extract from : « Peck's Bad Boy Abroad » by George W. Peck
  • Say, what story did you cook up about me to Margarita Tupper?
  • Extract from : « Skippy Bedelle » by Owen Johnson
  • Get busy, some of you, and fix the cook up with a second ration.
  • Extract from : « Motor Boat Boys' River Chase » by Louis Arundel
  • And dont let the landlord of the Chateau Laufen cook up a route for you.
  • Extract from : « Twenty Years in Europe » by Samuel H. M. Byers
  • "I'll cook up somethin' between now an' then," Bill said confidently.
  • Extract from : « Jack the Hunchback » by James Otis
  • I can cook up some grub for supper and then you can turn in.
  • Extract from : « Bill Bruce on Forest Patrol » by Henry Harley Arnold
  • "I'll try to cook up enough for you," said his mother, smiling.
  • Extract from : « Herbert Carter's Legacy » by Horatio Alger
  • She'll cook up some story to hoodwink him before they get to her apartments.
  • Extract from : « Six One-Act Plays » by Margaret Scott Oliver
  • Then I'll get you back into your lines: we'll cook up a good tale for Sommers.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories, May, 1931 » by Various
  • It remains for us to cook up some plan of escape like any other bottled heroes.
  • Extract from : « Herland » by Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman
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