koken

Borrowed from Japanese 後見(こうけん) (kōken, “a staff in noh and kabuki”).

koken (plural kokens)

1. (theater) A black-clad person who enters the stage to rearrange the set, unremarked by the actors
   • 1988 July 8, Diana Spinrad, “Tango; Chicago Young Playwrights Festival”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     McAllister uses the Japanese device of the koken for changing scenes, distributing props, and creating furniture.

• Knoke

From Middle Dutch cōken, from Old Dutch *kokon, from Proto-West Germanic *kokōn.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.kə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: ko‧ken
• Rhymes: -oːkən

koken

1. (ambitransitive) to cook, boil
2. (intransitive, figuratively) to seethe, boil with anger

• keuken

• Afrikaans: kook
• Berbice Creole Dutch: koki
• Jersey Dutch: kôke
• Negerhollands: kook, kok, kuk
• → Saramaccan: akòkí

From French coquin (“scoundrel”).

• IPA^(key): /kokɛ̃n/

koken

1. swindler, crook, scoundrel

koken

1. Rōmaji transcription of こけん