Synonyms for cooked-up


Grammar : Adj
Spell : koo k
Phonetic Transcription : kÊŠk

Top 10 synonyms for cooked-up Other synonyms for the word cooked-up

Définition of cooked-up

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]
  • As in trumped up : adj made up
  • As in invented : adj fictitious
  • As in false : adj wrong, made up
  • As in fictitious : adj untrue, made-up
Example sentences :
  • Sam has been got out of the way by a cooked-up story, ditto your manager.
  • Extract from : « Fifty-Two Stories For Girls » by Various
  • And it's a cooked-up story about his having anything to do with those freight thieves.
  • Extract from : « The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle » by Edward Stratemeyer (AKA Arthur M. Winfield)
  • It afterward took a sort of cooked-up shape, and was passed in the English bill.
  • Extract from : « The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume Three » by Abraham Lincoln

Antonyms for cooked-up

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