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plain cook

plain cook noun: a cook who can prepare various ordinary dishes but who has no particular specialism or expertise.

Noun

plain cook (plural plain cooks)

  1. (archaic) A cook who can prepare various ordinary dishes but who has no particular specialism or expertise.

Forms of plain cook

pluralplain cooks

Questions about plain cook

What does plain cook mean?
Plain cook means a cook who can prepare various ordinary dishes but who has no particular specialism or expertise.
What part of speech is plain cook?
Plain cook is a noun.
What is the plural of plain cook?
The plural of plain cook is plain cooks.

Words near plain cook in the dictionary

  1. plain brown wrapper
  2. plain brown wrappers
  3. plain chocolate
  4. plain chocolates
  5. plain clothes
  6. plain cook
  7. plain cooks
  8. plain dealer
  9. plain dealers
  10. plain dealing
  11. plain dealings

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