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Grammar : Adj
Spell : koo k-ing
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkʊk ɪŋ



Definition of cooking

Origin :
  • Old English coc, from Vulgar Latin cocus "cook," from Latin coquus, from coquere "to cook, prepare food, ripen, digest, turn over in the mind" from PIE root *pekw- "to cook" (cf. Oscan popina "kitchen," Sanskrit pakvah "cooked," Greek peptein, Lithuanian kepti "to bake, roast," Old Church Slavonic pecenu "roasted," Welsh poeth "cooked, baked, hot"). Germanic languages had no one native term for all types of cooking, and borrowed the Latin word (Old Saxon kok, Old High German choh, German Koch, Swedish kock).
  • There is the proverb, the more cooks the worse potage. [Gascoigne, 1575]
  • adj being cooked
  • adj in preparation
Example sentences :
  • How should salt be used in the cooking of: (a) tender vegetables?
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 2 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • During the cooking some of the liquid in the jars evaporates.
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 5 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • What may be said of the selection of a pan for cooking candy?
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 5 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • Probably the most important of these principles is the cooking of food.
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 1 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • Their preparation for cooking is similar to that of oysters.
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 3 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • (b) How can economy be exercised in the use of butter in cooking?
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 2 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • (b) How should they be adjusted for cooking on top of the stove?
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 1 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • Wasteful, too, this cooking of food for two and only one to eat it.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • When there was no work in the fields we learned the ways of cooking corn, and to make pots.
  • Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin
  • There was a smell of cooking, and the people gathering between the huts.
  • Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin

Synonyms for cooking

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