Middle English Dictionary Entry
cọ̄k n.(6)
Entry Info
| Forms | cọ̄k n.(6) Also coke, cuke, cuike. |
| Etymology | OE cōc (from L coquus, cocus). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) One who prepares and cooks food in a household, a cook; (b) one who prepares and sells cooked articles of food; cokes craft, the occupation of such a person.
Associated quotations
a
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)8102 : Weoren in þeos kinges cuchene twa hundred cokes.
- (1367) Will Uvedale in SAC 3151 : Haec est sedula continens legacionem Domini Thomae de Uvedale..servientibus ejus: Will Cooke, lx s...; Petro Gardineer, xx s...; Joh Waryner, x s...; Joh de Stabulo, 13 s. 4 d...; Henrico Hayward, 13 s. 4d.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2172 : Whan men kome to þe koke.
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.351 : Wo was his cook, but if his sauce were Poynaunt and sharp.
- c1390(?c1350) SVrn.Leg.(Vrn)73/662 : He fond þerinne nouþur cok ne knawe.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pard.(Manly-Rickert)C.538 : Thise cokes, how they stampe and streyne and grynde.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.4072 : The blake wether tho sche tok, And hiewh the fleissh as doth a cok.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)5.155 : I haue be cook in hir kichyne and þe couent serued.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)7b/a : Sich [surgeons] bene like yuel cokes..þat cutteþ noȝt after þe articlez, bot brisseþ & crussheþ & ryueþ.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)7.1050 : His cook, his pastleer, folk that wer most meete To serue his lust & appetites to feede.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)86 : Cooke, mete dytare: Cocus, coquinarius.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.Virtue (Hrl 2255)36 : Hoot ffir and smoke makith many an angry cook.
- c1475(?c1425) Avow.Arth.(Tay 9:French&Hale)731 : Cocus in þe kechine.
- (1466) Acc.Howard in RC 57208 : Paid to Blowebolle, kooke of the kervelle, xx d.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)505 : Cookes with þeire newe conceytes..Many new curies..þey ar contryvynge.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)31a : A Cuyke: Archimacherus, Articocus, cocus, coculus, culinarius, fumarius, macherus, offarius, popinarius.
b
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.379 : A Cook they hadde with hem for the nones To boille the chiknes [etc.].
- c1390 PPl.A(1) (Vrn)prol.104 : Cookes and heore knaues Cryen 'hote pies, hote!'
- c1390 PPl.A(1) (Vrn)3.70 : Brewesters, Bakers, Bochers and Cookes.
- (1423) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.148/242 : Crafftes and Fraternites þat deden hyren owr halle..of þe Cokes, be iij tymes, vij s.
- (1433) EEWills95/9 : The fraternyte of my crafte of cokes.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)147 : The cokys of the forseid toun..that non of hem selle, to privy ne to straunge, vitayles corrupt and discovenable to mannys body.
- a1450(?c1405) Lerne bodyly (Dgb 102)19 : At cokes hostry and tauerne.
- (1467) Ordin.Wor.p.405 : That non Bochour..to his vse occupie cokes crafte withyn the liberte of the seid cite.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)20b : A Caban of A coke: Capana.
2.
(a) cokes knave, a cook's helper, kitchen boy; master cok, chief cook, chef (of a noble's kitchen); yoman ~, an official in a noble's kitchen; (b) in names: cok-hous, ?kitchen, ?restaurant; ~ roue, Cooks' Row, Cook Street.
Associated quotations
a
- c1230(?a1200) *Ancr.(Corp-C 402)103a : Þe cokes cneaue þe wescheð & wipeð disches i cuchene.
- (c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)1123 : Þe shal spusen mi cokes knaue; Ne shalt þou non oþer louerd haue.
- (1450) RParl.5.195a : John Browne, undir Clerk of oure Kechyn..Thomas Cateby, Yoman Cooke for oure mouth.
- (1454) Proc.Privy C.6.228 : John Gourney m[aster] cook for þe King.
- c1450(a1375) Octav.(2) (Clg A.2)122 : The kokes knaue þat turneþ þe spyte, Upon þy wyyf he hath begete On of þo two.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)684 : Archemerus: a master cuke.
b
- (1287) Leet R.Norwich in Seld.Soc.517 : Cookrowe.
- (1296) Sub.R.Sus.in Sus.RS 10104 : Joh. de Cokehuse.
3.
(a) Something that provides nourishment; wormes ~, food for worms; (b) one who gives spiritual food.
Associated quotations
a
- c1300 Sayings St.Bern.(LdMisc 108)8 : Man is worm and wormes cok, For he schal wormes fede.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.481 : The Stomach coc is for the halle, And builleth mete for hem [livere, lunge, galle, splen] alle.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)390/119 : Youre dede is wormes coke.
b
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)6.716 : I trowe..Sche wolde noght hire yhe swerve, Min herte with o goodly lok To fede; and thus for such a cok I mai go fastinge everemo.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.St.Giles (LdMisc 683)111 : The hynde..kam..With a repast of hir mylk..She was thy cook, she was thy boteleer, Ageyn the constreynt of hunger to do boote.
Note: Additional quote(s)
Note: Belongs to sense 1.(a).--notes per MLL
- (1450) MSS Beverley in HMC133 : John Redysham, couke.
Note: New spelling: Also..couke.
Note: Belongs to sense 1.(a).--notes per MLL