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cooker
- /ˈkʊkɚ/ US
- /ˈkʊkə/ UK
- /ˈkɵkə/ British, Southern, Standard
- /ˈkuːkə/ UK
- [ˈkuːkɐ] Northumbria, UK
- /ˈkʉkəɾ/ Scotland, UK
- /ˈkʉkəɻ/ Northern Ireland, UK
Rhymes with -ʊkə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From cook + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (patient suffix) (apple; one who is cooked).
noun cookers
- A cookstove.
- An appliance or utensil for cooking food.
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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.
Similar: cook
- Ellipsis of cooking apple For the British market, apples are classed as early, mid-season, or late, and subdivided into eaters or cookers.
- A person who makes or uses illicit drugs, especially methamphetamine or cannabis.
- 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.
- A person who is cooked in the head; a crazy person.
- A conspiracy theorist, especially one who is involved in politics.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: dish, pot, bowl, oven, cooking, cook, wok, stove, furnace, pan, fireless, cookstove, stew, monkey stove, kitchener, wood burner
Translations
Talk about this word "cooker." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/cooker. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. cooker. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/cooker "cooker." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/cooker.Cite this
@misc{cooker_2026,
title = {cooker},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cooker},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
