undercook

present singular third person undercooks · participle present undercooking · participle past undercooked · past undercooked

1. transitiveTo cook insufficiently.

   Antonyms: overcook, scorch

2. figurativelytransitiveTo 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

   Antonyms: overdo

plural undercooks

1. A subordinate cook.

   Near-synonyms: sous-chef, subchef, underchef, chef de partie, station chef, line cook (all sometimes synonymous)

   1 more example

   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

   Synonyms: subcook, sous-chef, subchef, underchef, chef de partie, station chef, line cook