(UNDER-1 6 a. Cf. MDu. ondercoc, Du. -kok, G. unterkoch, Da. underkok, Sw. -kock.)
1598. Florio, Sotto cuoco, an vnder-cooke.
1620. (title) The Historie of Frier Rush: how he came to a house of Religion to seeke seruice, and … was first made vnder Cooke.
1660. Blount, Boscobel, 35. Col. Carlis the while being but Undercook … made the fire and turn’d the Collops in the pan.
1734. Berkeley, in Fraser, Life (1871), vi. 227. On breaking up of the Duke’s kitchen, one of his under-cooks may be got.
1809. Malkin, Gil Blas, X. iii. ¶ 10. The cook, the under-cook, and the scullion.
1900. Daily News, 9 Oct., 5/1. An undercook, aged 55, who had served 39 years in a boys’ orphanage.
