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cookless

cookless adjective: without a cook.

Adjective

cookless (not comparable)

  1. Without a cook.
    • I had just driven the cook to the station and we were discussing the ways and means of a cookless existence when a young Japanese called. He had heard, he said, that we needed a cook. We were delighted to see him.1918, John William Robertson Scott, The New East, volume 3, page 102

Origin of cookless

From cook + -less.

Words formed from cookless

Questions about cookless

What does cookless mean?
Cookless means without a cook.
What part of speech is cookless?
Cookless is an adjective.

Words near cookless in the dictionary

  1. cooking-pot
  2. cooking-pots
  3. cookings
  4. cookingware
  5. cookish
  6. cookless
  7. cooklessness
  8. Cookley
  9. cookline
  10. cooklines
  11. cookmaid

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