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cookee [< cook + dim. suffix -ee] Esp. Lumbering 
n. a cook's helper.
See also: cookie cook's mate flunkey (def. 1)
- 1896 (n.d.) The cook had the camp all to himself for a while; for the teams and choppers were at work a mile away, and the "cookee," as the cook's assistant is called, had betaken himself to a neighboring pond to fish for trout through the ice.
- 1957 Since this photo was taken, it is understood that an additional cook and cookee have been added to the staff to look after the appetites of some 260 employees.
- 1965 Food was laid out in "dishups" scattered along the table and "cookees" watched to see that they were well filled.
- 1896 (n.d.) The cook had the camp all to himself for a while; for the teams and choppers were at work a mile away, and the "cookee," as the cook's assistant is called, had betaken himself to a neighboring pond to fish for trout through the ice.