undercook

verb, noun — 3 senses

undercook

verb

US /ʌndɚ.kʊk/

Etymology From under- + cook.

1

To cook insufficiently.

2

Figuratively To underdo.

Liverpool needed a break and they got it at the beginning of the second half, from, of all things, a misplaced City pass. Aké was the culprit, undercooking his attempt to go back to Ederson and seeing Núñez steal in. He toed it away from the goalkeeper and was promptly cleaned out by him.2024 March 10, David Hytner, “Doku involved at both ends as Liverpool and Manchester City share spoils”, in The Guardian:

Derived terms: undercooker

undercook

noun

Etymology From under- + cook.

1

A subordinate cook.

Near-synonyms: sous-chef, subchef, underchef, chef de partie, station chef, line cook (all sometimes synonymous)
Formerly the domain of cooks, undercooks, and scullery maids, it wasn't even a room a householder would lay claim to, much less single out with items of personal interest.2002, Helen Thompson, Anna Kasabian, Cooking spaces: designs for cooking, entertaining, and living, page 67:

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