Cookee
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A female cook. archaic
"I approve altogether, my cousin beloved, of your sending your goods to the waggon on Saturday, and cookee by the coach on Tuesday. She will be here perhaps by four in the afternoon, at the latest by five, and will have quite time enough to find out all the cupboards and shelves in her department before you arrive."
- 2 A cook's helper, especially in a logging camp.
"After about an hour and a half he broke out of the trees into a clearing, and in the clearing was a logging camp, and sitting on a block of wood in front of the cook-shack was a bald-headed cookee peeling potatoes."
Example
More examples"I approve altogether, my cousin beloved, of your sending your goods to the waggon on Saturday, and cookee by the coach on Tuesday. She will be here perhaps by four in the afternoon, at the latest by five, and will have quite time enough to find out all the cupboards and shelves in her department before you arrive."
Etymology
From cook + -ee (diminutive suffix). Sense of "cook's helper" may be a blend of cook + rookie, or cook + trainee, etc.
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