| 释义 |
misˈcook, v. Chiefly Sc.
[mis-1 1.]
trans. To cook badly; to spoil in cooking. Also fig. to mismanage.
1508Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen 455 Bot folk a cury may miscuke, that knawledge wantis. 1570Satir. Poems Reform. xvi. 8 This commoun weill he hes miscuikit. 1638Baillie Lett. (Bannatyne Cl.) I. 70 These who, by their..imprudencies, had miscooked all the matter. 1825Jamieson, To Miscook to mismanage any business; as ‘Ye've miscookit a' your kail’. 1864Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 206 Food miscooked. 1868F. E. Paget Lucretia 234 In just retribution for his miscooking his master's chops. |