核心畫面
You can think of a cooker as the kitchen thing whose whole job is cooking — cook plus -er names the . The clearest picture is the big machine standing against the wall: a flat hot top for pans, an oven behind the door below. The second sense keeps the same idea of 'made for cooking' but points at food rather than machinery.
可以想成：cook 後面加上 -er，指「跟煮這件事綁在一起的東西」。最清楚的畫面比較像廚房裡那台大機器——上面是可…更多收起
可以想成：cook 後面加上 -er，指「跟煮這件事綁在一起的東西」。最清楚的畫面比較像廚房裡那台大機器——上面是可以放鍋子的平面爐口，下面通常有個烤箱門。第二個意思仍然扣著「就是為了煮而存在」，只是所指的東西從機器換成了食材。原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cookernoun/ˈkʊkɚ/
- 1
A cookstove.
- 2
An appliance or utensil for cooking food.
- 3
One who cooks.
- […] I am a true † cooker of men, that is to ſay, I not only dreſs and prepare ſuch vile eatables as theſe, but that green creature, called man, I kill, and cut in pieces, aye, and devour him too, heart and all.
- And, if we may believe the tale, / Her canny hand will ſcarcely fail, / Whate’er ſhe tries, to help or heal, / She’ll ſeldom blunder; / If ſhe be cooker of the kail, / She’ll gar us wonder.
- 4
slangA person who makes or uses illicit drugs, especially methamphetamine or cannabis.
- 5
slangThe container in which recreational drugs are prepared.
- […] does not know how to pick up the liquid from the cooker, and he asks someone else to use his rig to put his part in his rig.
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derogatoryslangA person who is cooked in the head; a crazy person.
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derogatoryslangA conspiracy theorist, especially one who is involved in politics.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。