† ˈcookess Obs. rare.
In ME. cokysse.
[f. cook n. + -ess.]
A female cook.
| 1459 Laud MS. 416 lf. 74 (Halliw.) Hyt is now hard to deserne and know, A tapster, a cokysse, or an ostelars wyf, From a gentylwoman, yf they stond arow. 1552 in Reg. Univ. Oxon. (Oxf. Hist. Soc. 1887) II. i. 287 Mawde, Cookesse of Hart Hall. |