undercook

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English

Etymology

From under- +‎ cook.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ʌndɚ.kʊk/
  • Rhymes: -ʊk
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Verb

undercook (third-person singular simple present undercooks, present participle undercooking, simple past and past participle undercooked)

  1. (transitive) To cook insufficiently.
  2. (transitive, figurative) To underdo.
    • 2024 March 10, David Hytner, “Doku involved at both ends as Liverpool and Manchester City share spoils”, in The Guardian:
      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.

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Noun

undercook (plural undercooks)

  1. A subordinate cook.
    • 2002, Helen Thompson, Anna Kasabian, Cooking spaces: designs for cooking, entertaining, and living, page 67:
      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.

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