cookeryn.
/ˈkʊk(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈkʊk(ə)ri/ 1.
a. Chiefly British and Irish English. The skill or activity of preparing and cooking food; cooking.plain cookery, pressure cookery, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [noun] > art of cooking
curya1387
cookerya1393
curea1400
kitchenc1400
kitchenry1563
magirology1814
home science1886
magirics1889
home economics1934
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 2433 (MED) Verconius of cokerie Ferst made the delicacie.
c1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 69 (MED) Here Beginnethe a Boke of Kokery.
1555 R. Eden Disc. Vyages Butrigarius & Cabote in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 258 Theyr maner of coquerie is in many thynges differynge frome owres.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. vi. 64 Fine Egyptian cookerie . View more context for this quotation
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 95 A House, and Place, at least, for our Cookery.
1818 H. T. Colebrooke On Import Colonial Corn 94 Animal matters which have undergone cookery, etc.
1884 Liverpool Daily Post 24 July 5 A new department will be opened for the neighbouring School of Cookery.
1951 ‘M. J. Farrell’ Loving without Tears (1997) xiv. 96 You must let me give you a hand. I'm mad about cookery, prefer it to dressmaking really.
2006 Time Out N.Y. 24 Aug. 33/3 Diwali isn't until October, but it's never too early to start mastering Indian cookery.
b. A particular type or method of cooking; a cuisine.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [noun] > style of cooking
cookery1583
kitchen1660
cuisine1786
1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. I.2 Sundry sorts of meats (the substance wherof is chaunged almoste into accidents thorow their curious cookries, & which doo help to rot yr bodies & shorten their daies).
1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. ii. 31 The most common sorts of Cookeries, next to boil'd Rice, is to dress little bits of Pork.
1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 566/2 We have a national literature as well as a national cookery.
1863 A. Marsh Heathside Farm II. 86 Wait till I get a school of my own, and see what cookeries I'll have.
2014 Washington Post (Nexis) 14 May eo1 There are two very different cookeries involved: the real thing (home cooking) and the tourist fare that developed in the 1930s.
c. Something prepared by a cook; a dish or item of food. Now chiefly West African and East African.
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1600 W. Vaughan Golden-groue ii. xxvi. sig. P8 Gluttony, which enduceth men to prepare artificiall cookeries & diuers sorts of meate: wheras one large and wholesome messe of meat could peraduenture counteruaile.
1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 263 His Appetite was gone, and Cookeries were provided in order to tempt his Palate; but all was Chip.
1802 D. Wordsworth Jrnl. 24 Jan. (1941) I. 101 We..made a nice piece of cookery for Wm.'s supper.
1855 C. M. Yonge Railroad Children v. 37 Many was the nice little cookery of broth or gruel made for her especial benefit.
1924 Clark County (Marshall, Illinois) Democrat 19 Mar. The sweet aroma of delicious cookeries.
2009 Africa News (Nexis) 25 Apr. The five bars..displayed their cookeries at the event which was graced by music and booze.
2018 @ArnoldAchiri 30 Oct. in twitter.com (accessed 17 Jan. 2020) Your bakeries, brownies and other cookeries are super expensive. Especially those in #Cameroon!
2. A place where food is cooked; a kitchen; an establishment which serves cooked food. In later use esp.: (North American) a place in a logging or mining camp where meals are cooked and eaten (now historical).
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking establishment or kitchen > [noun]
kitcheneOE
kitchie1538
cookhouse1563
cookery1572
out-kitchen1590
cook-room1602
cook-room1606
cookshop1857
kitchenette1870
society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling provisions > prepared food to take away
cookery1572
carry-out1964
takeout1964
takeaway1970
1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) sig. Nnijv Riot, or to bib and haunt cookeries.
1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 60 A common cookerie or cookes rowe.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxxvii. 310 The Roast-meat Cookery of the Petit Chastelet, before the Cook-Shop.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xliii. 474 The pie made and baked at the prison cookery hard by.
1928 E. W. Bradwin Bunkhouse Man vii. 176 In the spring a large pit was dug forty feet away from the cookery.
1998 I. Radforth in F. Iacovetta et al. Nation of Immigrants 296 Finnish women cooks and ‘cookees’..took pride in maintaining a spotless cookery.
2015 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 30 May g3 Condo owners with private terraces are also incorporating outdoor cookeries.
3. The action or practice of reworking, embellishing, or (fraudulently) altering something; an instance of this. Cf. cook v.1 5, 6. Now rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > false assertion > [noun] > deliberate falsification
cookery1611
non-information1930
disinformation1955
1611 W. Vaughan Spirit of Detraction Pref. sig. § If I doe but holde up the sword of iudgement against malicious malefactors, they hit me in the mouth with the effects of thy iudgements, as with choakt Peares, painting them out with artificiall cookeries, with varieties of impostures.
1709 Tatler No. 11. ⁋6 We..have no Occasion for that Art of Cookery, which our Brother Newsmongers so much excel in;..dressing up a second Time for your Tast the same Dish which they gaue you the Day before.
1869 Contemp. Rev. Sept. 62 The legends might have been ‘cooked’ over and over again, but the cookery came at last to nought.
1979 D. Mountfield Railway Barons ii. 68 The shareholders were implicitly guilty of aiding and abetting Hudson's cookery of the accounts.
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C1. General use as a modifier (in sense 1a), as in cookery competition, cookery lesson, cookery school, etc.
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1674 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1872) II. 289 The councell..grants libertie and permission to him to set wp and erect ane comone cookrie chope within this brughe.
1780 S. Kellet et al. (title) A complete collection of cookery receipts.
1874 Women & Work 8 Aug. 2/1 The practical cookery lessons..are all very well in their way; but they won't make thoroughly good cooks without a knowledge of the simple science laws of the subject.
1878 Woman's Gaz. Jan. 10/1 From other cookery schools we learn that the demand for ladies qualified to lecture on and instruct in cookery is still on the increase.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Feb. 2/1 A cookery competition for the women was carried on during the three days.
1991 A. Granger Season for Murder (1992) i. 16 Paul is a professional cookery writer and his food is guaranteed to be edible which is more than can be said of mine.
2000 Times 5 Sept. i. 5/2 I would really like to join her with Clarissa Dickson Wright for a new cookery show.
2013 Psychologies (U.K. ed.) May 96/1 Cookery classes for children were non-existent in the 1980s and 1990s.
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cookery book n. a book containing recipes and other information about the preparation and cooking of food; a cookbook.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cookery-book > [noun]
cookery book1639
recipe book1803
cookbook1809
receipt book1873
1639 M. Verney Will in F. P. Verney et al. Mem. Verney Family Civil War (1892) II. i. 18 All but my noats and account and medsinable and coockery Boockes, such keep.
1873 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 131 A recipe in the cookery-book.
2006 Slimming World Nov. 78/3 The massive popularity of TV chefs like Gordon Ramsay, Delia Smith and Jamie Oliver means we own more cookery books than ever before.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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