Obs. rare. In ME. cokysse. [f. COOK sb. + -ESS.] A female cook.
1459. Laud MS. 416, lf. 74 (Halliw.). Hyt is now hard to deserne and know, A tapster, a cokysse, or an ostelars wyf, From a gentylwoman, yf they stond arow.
1552. in Reg. Univ. Oxon. (Oxf. Hist. Soc., 1887), II. I. 287. Mawde, Cookesse of Hart Hall.
