cook, verb transitive

Origin:
Calqued on Afrikaans om ketel te kook.
obs.
In the colloquial phrase to cook the kettle.
, ‘to boil the kettle’, to boil water (for tea).
1900 B.M. Hicks Cape as I Found It 71 (Pettman)As soon as we got to the top we outspanned, and..made a fire, and began cooking the kettle.
1900 M. Marquard Lett. from Boer Parsonage (1967) 56His pathetic stories of the faithful old ‘achterrijder’ Valentyn cooking his keteltje.
1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 258Kettle, To cook the, A colloquialism common in South Africa for making the water in the kettle to boil.
1938 F.C. Slater Trek 17Rouse ye, rouse ye, men of mettle! Kindle fires and cook each kettle. [Source Note: Afrikanderism for ‘boil’.]
1949 [see kommetjie sense 1].
, ‘to boil the kettle’, to boil water (for tea).
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