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undercook en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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  • /ʌndɚ.kʊk/ (US)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *h₂én Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰi ? Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English cook English undercook From under- + cook.

Meanings

  1. A subordinate cook.
    • Formerly the domain of cooks, undercooks, and scullery maids, it wasn't even a room a householder would lay claim to, much less single out with items of personal interest. 2002, Helen Thompson, Anna Kasabian, Cooking spaces: designs for cooking, entertaining, and living, page 67:
    • Near-synonyms: sous-chef, subchef, underchef, chef de partie, station chef, line cook (all sometimes synonymous)

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
undercooks Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

chief cook and bottle washer · chef · head chef

Hypernyms

cook

Synonyms

chef de partie · subchef · station chef · line cook · subcook · sous-chef · underchef

Translations (2)

fi apukokki (subordinate cook) · pl kucharz pomocniczy (subordinate cook)

undercook en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /ʌndɚ.kʊk/ (US)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *h₂én Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰi ? Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English cook English undercook From under- + cook.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To cook insufficiently.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To underdo.
    • Liverpool needed a break and they got it at the beginning of the second half, from, of all things, a misplaced City pass. Aké was the culprit, undercooking his attempt to go back to Ederson and seeing Núñez steal in. He toed it away from the goalkeeper and was promptly cleaned out by him. 2024 March 10, David Hytner, “Doku involved at both ends as Liverpool and Manchester City share spoils”, in The Guardian:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
undercooking Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
undercooked Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
undercooked Tense=Past lexicographic
undercooks Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Antonyms

overdo · overcook · scorch

Deriveds

undercooker

Hypernyms

overdo

Translations (8)

pl niedogotować (cook insufficiently) · es cocinar insuficientemente (cook insufficiently) · ru недовари́ть (cook insufficiently) · cmn 不夠火候 /不够火候 (cook insufficiently) · ru недова́ривать (cook insufficiently) · fi jättää raa’aksi (cook insufficiently) · fi kypsentää liian vähän (cook insufficiently) · pl niedogotowywać (cook insufficiently)