cooking
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cook/kʊk/
▶verb
- 1 prepare (food) by mixing, combining, and heating the ingredients.
■ (of food) be heated so as to reach an edible state.
- 2 informal alter dishonestly.
■ (cook something up) concoct a clever or devious story, excuse, or plan.
- 3 (be cooking) informal be happening or planned.
- 4 N. Amer. informal perform or proceed vigorously or very well.
– phrases
cook someone's goose informal spoil someone's plans.
cook someone's goose informal spoil someone's plans.
– derivatives
cookable adjective,
cooking noun.
cookable adjective,
cooking noun.
– origin OE cōc (n.), from pop. L. cocus, from L. coquus.
'cooking' also found in these Oxford entries:
Aga
- andouille
- asafoetida
- bain-marie
- baste
- bay leaf
- beat
- bedsit
- biffin
- billy
- black bean
- blanch
- boiler
- bone
- Bramley
- brown
- butter
- calzone
- caponata
- casserole
- cauldron
- chafing dish
- chipotle
- chuck wagon
- cockle
- cocotte
- codling
- cook
- cooker
- cookery
- cookhouse
- cooktop
- cordon bleu
- Costard
- cranberry
- cuisine
- culinary
- curry leaf
- dariole
- debone
- dish
- dixie
- dosa
- dress
- dutchie
- Dutch oven
- egg timer
- empanada
- fat
- fines herbes
