▪ I. cookee N. Amer.
(ˈkʊkiː)
Also cookie.
[f. cook n.]
A cook; esp. an assistant to the cook in a camp.
| 1846 Spirit of Times 4 July 218/2 A cookie who was lord and master of the culinary department. 1851 J. S. Springer Forest Life 172 Arrangements are made..by the cook and ‘cookee’, as his assistant is called. 1891 Harper's Mag. Nov. 890/2 The rule is to have one cook and two ‘cookees’ to each sixty men. 1901 S. E. White Westerners xxvii. 250 The move necessitated a cook and ‘cookee’, and the weekly purchase of provisions. 1965 Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 16 May 6/2 Food was laid out in ‘dishups’ scattered along the table and ‘cookees’ watched to see that they were well filled. |
▪ II. cookee
see cooky.