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† 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, Cookess...
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cokysse
† cokysse Obs. = cookess, female cook.14.. MS. Laud 416 f. 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.
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cocasse
▪ I. † cocasse, n. Obs. Used by Bale for a female cook (as if cookess); but cf. F. cocasse dial. ‘femme ou fille ridicule, femme ou fille ivrogne’, and see Littré.1546 Bale Eng. Votaries ii. (1550) 77 Their processe was all agaynst the cocasses or she cookes of y⊇ curates.▪ II. ‖ cocasse, a. (kɔkas)...
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cook
▪ I. cook, n. (kʊk) Forms: 1 cóc, 3 coc, cok, kok, 4–7 coke, cooke, (4–5 Sc. cuk(e, 5 koke, kowke, kuke, pl. cocus), 5– cook. [OE. cóc, ad. L. coquus, late L. cocus cook. Cf. OS. kok, MDu. coc, pl. cōke, Du. kok, LG. kokk; OHG. choh (hh), MHG., mod.G. koch; Icel. kokkr, Da. kok, Sw. kock. In contine...
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