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/kˈʊkɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Cook v. t. To throw. (Prov.Eng.) "Cook me that ball."

Cook v. t. (past & past part. cooked; pres. part. cooking)

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. (Colloq.) "They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different."

Cook v. i. To make the noise of the cuckoo. (Obs. or R.) "Constant cuckoos cook on every side."

Cook v. i. To prepare food for the table.

noun

cooking n.

The practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared; cookery.

Synonyms: cookery, cuisine, culinary art.

The act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat.

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"Cooking" Quotes from Famous Books

... our breakfasts this morning, and as everyone was, by way of helping, either making toast, poaching the eggs, cooking hunks of bacon, or mending up the fire, the stove was pronounced much too small. The moment we had finished our meal we had to retire upstairs and make the beds and tidy up a little; a half-breed woman living about half-a-mile off is supposed to come in for an hour and wash up and ...

— A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba • Mrs. Cecil Hall

... the qualities that are to produce longevity in the eater. Being deprived of all other nourishment till they are almost dying of hunger, they are to be fed upon broth made of serpents and vinegar, which broth is to be thickened with wheat and bran." Various ceremonies are to be performed in the cooking of this mess, which those may see in the book of M. Harcouet, who are at all interested in the matter; and the chickens are to be fed upon it for two months. They are then fit for table, and are to be washed down with moderate quantities of good white wine or claret. This regimen is to be followed ...

— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Vol. I • Charles Mackay

... breeding of human beings. Thus the education of the children is under his rule. So also is the medicine that is sold, the sowing and collecting of fruits of the earth and of trees, agriculture, pasturage, the preparations for the months, the cooking arrangements, and whatever has any reference to food, clothing, and the intercourse of the sexes. Love himself is ruler, but there are many male and female ...

— The City of the Sun • Tommaso Campanells

... that the miners were not fastidious about living. The cabins or huts which they occupied were primitive to the last degree. Generally they did their own cooking, such as it was. Three of these cabins Tom Ashton owned, and one was assigned to the use ...

— A Cousin's Conspiracy - A Boy's Struggle for an Inheritance • Horatio Alger

... replied, "but as I stick to my own opinion, and think his cooking horrible, he must go, for I want to get another, and I will pay that fellow as if he had served me the ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

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