cooker

cooker

English

Etymology

From cook +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkʊkɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkʊkə/
• Rhymes: -ʊkə(ɹ)

Noun

cooker (plural cookers)

1. (chiefly Britain) A device for heating food, a stove.
2. (chiefly Britain, except in compounds) An appliance or utensil for cooking food.
3. A cooking apple.
   • 2004, Laura Mason, Food Culture in Great Britain, page 94:

     For the British market, apples are classed as early, mid-season, or late, and subdivided into eaters or cookers.

Synonyms

• stove

Derived terms

• AGA cooker
• electric cooker
• gas cooker
• multicooker
• pressure cooker
• rice cooker
• slow cooker

Translations

device for heating food

Finnish: liesi (fi), hella (fi) Irish: sorn cistine m

Maori: tō

appliance or utensil for cooking

Bulgarian: печка (bg) f (péčka) Chinese: Mandarin: 炊具 (zh) (chuījù), 厨灶 (zh) (chúzào) Czech: vařič (cs) m, sporák (cs) m Finnish: kattila (fi), painekattila; keitin (fi) German: Herd (de) m Greek: κουζίνα (el) f (kouzína) Hebrew: כיריים‎ f pl (kiráyim), כירה‎ f (kirá) Hungarian: tűzhely (hu) Irish: sorn cistine m Japanese: コンロ (ja) (konro), 焜炉 (ja) (こんろ, konro) Latvian: plīts f, krāsns (lv) f

Norwegian: Bokmål: komfyr (no) m Nynorsk: komfyr m Polish: kuchenka (pl) f Portuguese: utensílio de cozinha m Romanian: aragaz (ro) n Russian: плита́ (ru) f (plitá), пе́чка (ru) f (péčka) Scottish Gaelic: cucair m Spanish: cocina (es) f, estufa (es) f Swedish: spis (sv) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

cooking apple — see cooking apple

Anagrams

• Crooke, recook