Old British slang for an undertaker or funeral director.
Old British slang for an undertaker or funeral director. The dark humor of the term is hard to miss — a 'cold cook' prepares bodies that are already cold rather than food. It's the kind of grim, wry nickname that working-class British slang excelled at producing. While largely dated now, it's the sort of phrase you'd encounter in Victorian-era texts, old crime fiction, or historical slang dictionaries.
The neighbors whispered that old Mr. Finch had become a cold cook after the war — apparently he had the right temperament for it.
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(slang) An undertaker.
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