Cookee

Quick meaning: Cookee is a noun meaning A cook's helper, especially in a logging camp.

Meaning

A cook's helper, especially in a logging camp.

More Meanings

1. (archaic) A female cook.

Example Sentences

The cook's assistant, who was called the cookee, made a roaring fire in the stove. As soon as the fire was going strong, the cookee woke up the teamsters.

Cookee did not wish to entertain her illustrious friend in a vulgar way, though he was so hungry he could have taken his meal off kitchen stuff in a dog kennel.

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.

Being heartily tired of this kind of fare, he applied to the cook : 'Cookee,' says Thomas, 'is it the standing rule of this family to keep their servants on nothing but bread and cheese?' 'What!' says the cook, 'do you grumble?' 'No, no, by no means, cookee,' replied Thomas, being fearful of forfeiting the money.

Word Forms

• cookees

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cooky, cootie, cookery, kootee, coocoo, cookdom.

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