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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

... There were from twenty to thirty thousand Indians there, and the Indians who invited them prepared to take care of a large crowd in good style, so confident were they that this time "the pot" would be theirs. They had hunted down, killed and dressed some fifty or sixty buffalo, and had them cooking whole, in the ground—barbecuing the meats. This time the putting up of the bets before the races came off was still more exciting than at the previous race, for the Indians had from 500 to 1,000 ponies to put up. The white men ...

— The Second William Penn - A true account of incidents that happened along the - old Santa Fe Trail • William H. Ryus

... Hal Sinclair was the vital spirit. In the actual labor of mining, the mighty arms and tireless back Of Quade had been a treasure. For knowledge of camping, hunting, cooking, and all the lore of the trail, Lowrie stood as a valuable resource; and Sandersen was the dreamy, resolute spirit, who had hoped for gold in those mountains until he came to believe his hope. He had gathered these three stalwarts to help him to his purpose, and if he lived he would ...

— The Rangeland Avenger • Max Brand

... He patted her tenderly on the back and smoothed his Jennie's yellow braids, while he swallowed the lump in his throat and got it down and out of the way. He needed no doctor to tell him that Santa Claus would not come again and find her cooking their Christmas dinner, unless she mended ...

— Children of the Tenements • Jacob A. Riis

... them, and when you'd found one it gave you your wish. People used to send their little boys down to the seashore in the morning before breakfast to get the day's wishes, and very often the eldest boy in the family would be told to wish for a Megatherium, ready jointed for cooking. It was as big as an elephant, you see, so there was a good deal of meat on it. And if they wanted fish, the Ichthyosaurus was asked for,—he was twenty to forty feet long, so there was plenty of him. And for poultry there was the Plesiosaurus; there were ...

— Five Children and It • E. Nesbit

... of thickets of such shrubs as inhabit a redwood forest floor. At the left, in the open level space at the foot of the hillside, extending out of sight among the trees, is visible a portion of a Nishinam Indian camp. It is a temporary camp for the night. Small cooking fires smoulder. Standing about are withe-woven baskets for the carrying of supplies and dunnage. Spears and bows and quivers of arrows lie about. Boys drag in dry branches for firewood. Young women fill gourds with water from the stream and proceed about their camp ...

— The Acorn-Planter - A California Forest Play (1916) • Jack London

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