Cook Up

Definition: Cook Up

Cook Up

Verb

1. Prepare or cook by mixing ingredients; "concoct a strange mixture".

2. Make up something artificial or untrue.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Cook Up

Only a toon could cook up that lame brain freeway idea. (Who Framed Roger Rabbit; writing credit: Gary K. Wolf; Jeffrey Price)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Classroom Cooking!: E-Z, Fun, Healthy, Educational, Historical Things to Cook Up Right in the Classroom (The Here & Now Series) (reference)

• Cook Up a Crime (reference)

• From Storebought to Homemade: Cook up Easy, Fabulous Food in Minutes (reference)

• Oh Great! What Do I Do Now?: Parenting Remedies for When Kids Cook Up the Unexpected (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Volunteers at WOW (Wonderful Outdoor World) cook up some food for the kids participating in the program. Credit: Unknown.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expression using "cook up": to cook up. Additional references.

Albanian

sajoj (coin, concoct, cook, counterfeit, devise, engineer, excogitate, fabricate, invent, lay out, patch up, prefabricate, strike out, think up, toss up, vamp, weave), përgatit (coach, compose, concoct, dispense, dress, fit, fit up, get, get ready, get up, make, make ready, make up, mix up, mobilize, prepare, produce, qualify, stage-manage, train). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скалъпвам (carpenter, fabricate, indite, piece together, put together, rig up, think up, toss off), измислям (coin, conceive, concoct, contrive, devise, dream up, evolve, excogitate, fabricate, fake, feign, figure out, frame up, incubate, invent, manufacture, think up, trump, weave). (various references)

Chinese 

編� (compile, concoct, create out of the imagination, draw up, fabricate, invent, make up, work out). (various references)

Czech

vymyslit (contrive, excogitate, form, hammer out, make up, think up), vybájit, uvařit (boil, boil down, boil up, cook, do). (various references)

Danish

varme op (to cook up, to fire up, to heat up, to warm up). (various references)

Dutch

verhitten (agitate, excite, rouse, stir up). (various references)

French

fabriquer. (various references)

German

auskochen (boil, sterilize), aushecken (brew, concoct, contrive, hatch up, plot, scheme, think up, to concoct), ausbrüten (hatch, hatch out, hatch up, incubate, incubation, to incubate). (various references)

Hungarian

kitervel (calculate, invent, laid, plan, think out, to lay, to plot, to put up, to think out), kiagyal (concoct, contrive, mastermind, to concoct, to cook up, to mint). (various references)

Italian

inventare (contrive, fabricate, forge, frame, invent, spin, think up). (various references)

Pig Latin

ookcay upay

Portuguese

inventar (coin, concoct, contrive, create, devise, discover, dream up, feign, forge, fudge, invent, make up, manufacture, mint), forjar (coin, contrive, fabricate, feign, forge, fudge, invent, manipulate, manufacture, mint, wangle). (various references)

Russian 

стряпать (concoct, cook), состряпать (concoct). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zakuvati (concoct, make things hot), izmisliti (devise, dream up, fudge, invent, make up, think up). (various references)

Spanish

urdir (weave), tramar (concoct, contrive, engineer, hatch, plot, put up, scheme, weave), preparar (build, coach, dispense, do, draft, draught, draw up, extract, get, get out, get up, infuse, ingrain, lay, lead up, make, make ready, make up, poise, prepare, prime, put up, ready, tee up, train, train up). (various references)

Swedish

laga till (concoct), koka ihop (concoct, fake, frame). (various references)

Turkish

uydurmak (accommodate, adapt, adjust, attune, concoct, conform, cook, dream up, fabricate, fake up, fashion, feign, fib, fit, forge, frame, fudge, gear, improvise, invent, key, make up, manufacture, mint, quadrate, reconcile, romance, spin, Square, square with, suit, syntonize, tailor, talk through one's hat, tally up, tell a fib, trump up, tune, tune up), oynama yapmak (bend, cook, falsify, juggle, juggle with, manipulate). (various references)

Ukrainian

сфабрикувати (trump up), підробити. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: cook, coop, coup, pock, poco, puck.

-3 letters: coo, cop, cup, kop, upo.

-4 letters: op, up.

+4 letters: cuckoopint.

+5 letters: cuckoopints, outpolitick.