Butler vs. Cook — What's the Difference?

A butler is a person who works in a house serving and is a domestic worker in a large household. In great houses, the household is sometimes divided into departments with the butler in charge of the dining room, wine cellar, and pantry.

To prepare (food) for eating by applying heat.

The chief manservant of a house.

To prepare or treat by heating

The head servant in a household who is usually in charge of food service, the care of silverware, and the deportment of the other servants.

(Slang) To alter or falsify so as to make a more favorable impression; doctor

A manservant having charge of wines and liquors.

To prepare food for eating by applying heat.

The chief male servant of a household who has charge of other employees, receives guests, directs the serving of meals, and performs various personal services.

To undergo application of heat especially for the purpose of later ingestion.

A valet, a male personal attendant.

(Slang) To happen, develop, or take place

To buttle, to dispense wines or liquors; to take the place of a butler.

(Slang) To proceed or perform very well

An officer in a king's or a nobleman's household, whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head servant in a large house.

A person who prepares food for eating.

A manservant (usually the head servant of a household) who has charge of wines and the table

(cooking) A person who prepares food.

(cooking) The head cook of a manor house.

(cooking) The degree or quality of cookedness of food.

(slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

(slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.

To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.

(intransitive) To be cooked.

To be uncomfortably hot.

(slang) To execute by electric chair.

To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.

To concoct or prepare.

To tamper with or alter; to cook up.

To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)

To play music vigorously.

To make the noise of the cuckoo.

To throw.

To make the noise of the cuckoo.

To throw.

To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.

To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; - often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account.

To prepare food for the table.

One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.

A fish, the European striped wrasse.

Someone who cooks food

English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)

Prepare a hot meal;

Prepare for eating by applying heat;

Transform and make suitable for consumption by heating;

Transform by heating;

Fake or falsify;