Cookless

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Without a cook. not-comparable

    "I had just driven the cook to the station and we were discussing the ways and means of a cookless existence when a young Japanese called. He had heard, he said, that we needed a cook. We were delighted to see him."

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"I had just driven the cook to the station and we were discussing the ways and means of a cookless existence when a young Japanese called. He had heard, he said, that we needed a cook. We were delighted to see him."

Etymology

From cook + -less.

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