cookees

Noun

cookee (plural cookees)

1. (archaic) A female cook.
   • I approve altogether, my cousin beloved, of your sending your goods to the waggon on Saturday, and cookee by the coach on Tuesday. She will be here perhaps by four in the afternoon, at the latest by five, and will have quite time enough to find out all the cupboards and shelves in her department...1836, William Cowper, Robert Southey, The Works of William Cowper, Esq - Volume 5, page 335
2. A cook's helper, especially in a logging camp.
   • 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.1999, Robert E. Pike, Tall Trees, Tough Men, →ISBN, page 135