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单词 cooked-up
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cooked-upadj.

Brit. /ˈkʊktʌp/, U.S. /ˈkʊktˌəp/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cooked adj., up adv.1
Etymology: < cooked adj. + up adv.1, after to cook up at cook v.1 Phrasal verbs.
1. Contrived, created, or altered for the purpose of deception or to suit a purpose; made-up; falsified. Cf. cooked adj. 3.
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1734 Corn-cutter's Jrnl. 7 May This, my Countrymen, is no cooked up Ministerial Story, but a Matter of Fact publickly owned by the Pretender himself.
1879 Waterloo (Iowa) Courier 20 Aug. The old threadbare stories were told against them, and they were asked to answer the same cooked-up charges made for effect against the Republicans.
2004 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 1 July b2 Almost three decades ago, the National Enquirer abandoned the traditional..tabloid formula of UFOs, bizarre sex,..Loch Ness-ish monsters, cooked-up stories [etc.].
2. Of food or a meal: prepared by cooking; cooked; heated-up. Now somewhat rare.
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1869 tr. B. Auerbach Country-house on Rhine iv. i, in Littell's Living Age 6 Feb. 365/1 There was an irregular debate, whether lettuce-seeds or young cabbage-heads were not much better than all the cooked-up dishes of men.
1920 Outers' Recreation Jan. 96/2 On a good trail there are so many outdoor interests that I confess I begrudge the time it takes to prepare a real cooked-up meal.
2009 @laddiethemutt 27 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 11 July 2019) It's cooked up left over veg you can bring the pickles if you like.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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