[kʊk], (Verb)

Definitions:
- prepare (food, a dish, or a meal) by mixing, combining, and heating the ingredients
(e.g: shall I cook dinner tonight?)

- alter dishonestly; falsify
(e.g: a narcotics team who cooked the evidence)

- be happening or planned
(e.g: what's cooking on the alternative fuels front?)

- perform or proceed vigorously or very well
(e.g: the band used to get up on the bandstand and really cook)


Phrases:
- cook someone's goose
- cook the books
- too many cooks spoil the broth

Origin:
Old English cōc (noun), from popular Latin cocus, from Latin coquus

[kʊk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a person who prepares and cooks food, especially as a job or in a specified way
(e.g: Susan was a school cook)


Phrases:
- cook someone's goose
- cook the books
- too many cooks spoil the broth

Origin:
Old English cōc (noun), from popular Latin cocus, from Latin coquus