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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Kuke, Kuik, n. Also: kuk, kwk(e, kwik, kouk, koke. [ME. kok: cf. Cuke n.] A (male) cook, as a manservant in a household, or as the keeper of an eating-house.Also, proverbially, ‘Chaucer's cook(s)’.(a) c1475 Wall. vi. 623.
Twa kukis 1490 Treas. Acc. I. 132.
To the kwkis to thare rawardis, … vj li. c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxxiii. 68.
Sum held he had bene Dedalus, And sum Saturnus kuke 1517 Treas. Acc. V. 129.
For werk don be the maister kuk … in the castell for keping of the Kingis stuff xx s.(b) 1540 Lynd. Sat. 171 (Ch.).
Scho spairis nouther kuik nor knycht 1574 Misc. Spald. C. II. 41.
Wilem Marchall, kwik in Aberden 1621 Acts IV. 613/2.
That no man sall play at cairdes nor dyce in any … toun ostlarye or kuikis housisproverb. a1568 Scott i. 127.
[Some churchgoers] aganis Goddis word makis weir: Sic Christianis to kis with Chauceris kuikis God gife thé grace aganis this gude new ȝeir(c) a1500 Henr. II. 274/105 (B).
Had I dry breid I keipit nocht no kokis 1602 Dundonald Par. Rec. 8.
Thomas Michell, kouk in Capreintoun