cookingn.

Brit.

/ˈkʊkɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈkʊkɪŋ/

Forms: see cook v.¹ and -ing suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: cook v.¹, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < cook v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.Compare Old English cōcnung article of cooked food (see cook v.¹).

a. The action or an act of applying heat to food to make it suitable for eating; the activity or skill of preparing food by combining and heating ingredients.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [noun]

pot?c1225

cooking1596

coction1605

cocture1662

concoction1680

kitchening1842

slow cooking1851

pancake-making1904

cook-up1911

pot wrestling1914

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 94 Prudentlie thay fand out a new diuice and maner of kuiking.

1736 S.-Carolina Gaz. 6 Nov. 2/1 To be Sold... The Time of a white servant 5 Years and a half to come, she Sews, Marks and Quilts in the best Manner & understands Cooking well.

1804 T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds II. 220 When they have undergone a certain sweetening process before cooking.

1811 W. Irving in C. D. Warner Life (1882) 87 Stand by a frying-pan for an hour and listen to the cooking of apple-fritters.

1900 J. C. Hemmeter Dis. of Stomach (ed. 2) ii. ii. 260 After a further cooking of fifteen hours with bicarbonate of soda it becomes neutral.

1950 D. Cusack Morning Sacrifice i, in Three Austral. Three-act Plays 204 You know I simply adore cooking.

2009 Daily Tel. 19 May 29/3 At the star's home, Heymer took charge of the cooking, cleaning, chauffeuring.

b. The activity of preparing a drug, esp. opium or heroin, for immediate use by heating it over a flame. Cf. cook v.¹ 3a.

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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun] > preparing opium

cooking1886

cooker1905

1886 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 19 Feb. 2/3 This pea was then held over the flame of the lamp to be ‘cooked’... During the cooking the opium gave off a pleasant odor, resembling that of roasted peanuts.

2005 Z. Yangwen Social Life Opium in China xi. 172 Like food, the cooking of opium paste was an art and craft.

2006 S. Reid in L. Crozier & P. Lane Addicted (ed. 2) 211 Box gradually came around enough to repeat the whole cooking ritual, and this time he sank the needle into my wing.

2. figurative. The action of reworking, embellishing, or (fraudulently) altering something. Cf. cook v.¹ 5, 6.

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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [noun]

defraudc1450

defraudationc1503

fraudingc1530

defrauding1548

cheateryc1555

cheatingc1555

versing1591

begeckc1600

sharking1602

shaving1606

rooking1635

defraudment1645

emunging1664

prowlerya1670

bilking1687

sharping1692

mace1742

fineering1765

swindling1769

highway robbery1777

macing1811

flat-catching1821

ramping1830

swindlery1833

rigging1846

diddlinga1849

suck-in1856

daylight robbery1863

cooking1873

bunco-steering1875

chousing1881

fiddling1884

verneukery1896

padding1900

verneukering1900

bobol1907

swizzle1913

ramp1915

swizz1915

chizzing1948

tweedling1975

1614 R. Bernard Weekes Worke 71 Want of good stomackkes and hearts vnhumbled, doe cause the fine and delicate cooking of Gods word, and saucing it with the froth of mens wits, to make it fleshly sweet, and pleasant to vaine persons.

1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 8 It is mans pervers cooking who hath turn'd this bounty of God into a Scorpion.

1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. (1877) vi. 121 ‘Cooking’ of railway accounts and financial prospectuses.

1887 J. P. Mahaffy Greek Life & Thought xxii. 555 They had Alexandrian authors, love poems, novels, controversial tracts, the history of cooking, and still more the cooking of history by compilers and partisans.

2015 Silverton (Colorado) Standard 13 Aug. 3/3 The D&RGW did everything in their corporate power to try to show that the line didn't show a profit..but the PUC saw through the obvious cooking of the books.

a. Food that has been cooked, esp. in a specified manner.Frequently with modifying word specifying the manner of cooking; recorded earliest in French cooking (see quot. 1798).home, plain cooking, etc.: see the first element.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > food by way of preparation > [noun] > cooked food

pan-meateOE

curea1400

curyc1460

cooking1798

1798 C. Smith Day at Rome 17 Treat beef and port with great disdain, Extol French cooking and Champaign.

1801 Sketch of Paris I. xxxviii. 455 The savouriness of their cooking.

1887 Puck 8 June 238/2 When he..has undergone the horrors of farm-house cooking, of husk-beds.., he gives it up as a hopeless business, and takes himself..to the noisy, expensive summer caravansary.

1934 Amer. Home Mar. 224 (advt.) Thank the customs of our much derided machine age for being the first to produce cooking which is at once simple, digestible, and delicious.

1969 Daily Tel. 22 Jan. 15 The sort of real delicious Italian country cooking that is a revelation after so much chichi Italian food dished up in London.

2017 H. Vassallo in B. Steger & A. Koch Cool Japanese Men ii. 70 One incident where he was told his cooking tasted awful led to his abstention from the kitchen for three years.

b. A portion of cooked food; a meal. rare.

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the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun]

mealeOE

meatshiplOE

meal of meatc1330

meal's meatc1330

refectiona1425

eating1483

mealtide1485

repasc1485

sustenancea1500

breakfast1526

repast1530

recreation1538

cooking1804

eat1844

scoff1846

grub1857

khana1859

meetsuk1896

nosh1964

trough1981

1804 Ann. Rev. & Hist. Lit. 1803 2 635/1 The rustic greediness of swallowing two cookings in a day.

1961 Mira Let. Jan. in K. Payne Between Ourselves (1983) 348 It would be good for me to be back in the family and taste all the good cookings of a wedding.

Compounds

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a. General use as a modifier (in sense 1a), as in cooking pot, cooking lesson, cooking tip, cooking utensil, etc.

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1664 Duchess of Newcastle CCXI Sociable Lett. Ep. Ded. sig. b I cannot Work, I mean such Works as Ladies use to pass their Time withall... You may ask me, what Works I mean; I answer, Needle-works, Spinning-works, Preserving-works, as also Baking, and Cooking-works.

1816 Mrs. Sherwood Ayah & Lady ix. 59 He was carried under the cooking-boat, and seen no more.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Cyclops in Posthumous Poems (1824) 346 Then peeled his flesh with a great cooking knife.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xvi. 172 Our cooking-gear.

1908 J. Gunn We of Never-never xiv. 189 The cooking lessons proceeded until the fine art of making ‘puff de looneys’..had been mastered.

1954 E. Huxley Four Guineas (1955) 143 We walked through an outer courtyard full of women pounding fu-fu and stirring cooking-pots.

1991 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 2 Dec. a16/5 (heading) Dorothy Lipovenko presents eight handy cooking tips for the culinarily challenged.

2007 Knutsford Guardian (Nexis) 12 Nov. Wares..sold everything from traditional cooking utensils to haberdashery.

b. As a modifier, designating an ingredient used in cooking, esp. as compared to a (usually higher quality) version designed to be consumed on its own, as cooking chocolate, cooking fat, cooking oil, cooking wine, etc.See also cooking apple n., cooking sherry n., cooking soda n. at Compounds 2.

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the world > food and drink > food > fat or oil > [noun]

cooking oil1848

cooking fat1940

1830 Georgian (Savannah, Georgia) 3 Nov. Low priced Cooking Butter.

1848 H. Low Sarawak ii. 47 These nuts are collected by the natives, and yield a very large proportion of oil... The natives at present only value this as a cooking oil.

1930 Good Housek. (U.S. ed.) Feb. 86/3 Chocolate Chip Ice Cream is made by adding one cupful of chipped cooking chocolate to one quart of vanilla ice-cream before freezing.

1940 Economist 13 July 43/1 Tea, margarine and cooking fats are all to be rationed this month.

1966 R. Jeffries Death in Coverts i. 7 The last trump would sound before he ever offered even cooking brandy.

2000 J. Cummings World Food: Thailand 141 Drop the mixture into a wok containing 2cm of very hot cooking oil.

2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 17 Dec. v. 14/3 The one cup each of sesame oil, soy sauce and cooking wine traditionally used in the recipe.

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cooking apple n. any of several varieties of apple suitable for cooking, typically having tart firm flesh and a high acid content.

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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > apple > [noun] > cooking-apple

cooking apple1817

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > cooking apple

cooking apple1817

1817 W. Coxe View Cultiv. Fruit Trees 108 The Hagloe is an uncommonly fine cooking apple.

1893 G. Meredith Let. 8 Nov. (1970) II. 1146 The cooking apples can't be surpassed.

1959 Home Encycl. 10 Some of the most prolific cooking apples are Early Victoria, Cellini, Lane's Prince Albert, Arthur Turner and Bramley's Seedling.

2020 @JoolsAWilson 7 Apr. in twitter.com (accessed 15 Apr. 2020) I do have some cooking apples. I can't decide whether to stew them or make apple cake.

cooking house n. [compare earlier cookhouse n.] a building or other structure in which food is cooked or prepared; spec. (a) the cookhouse or galley on board a ship (cf. cookhouse n. 2b); (b) a building or room used as a kitchen (cf. cookhouse n. 2a).

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1798 London Chron. 16 Jan. 62/2 The sea washed clean over the ship, and carried the cooking-house overboard.

1869 A. R. Wallace Malay Archipel. I. viii. 194 Houses for the accommodation of passengers, with cooking-house and stables.

2003 S. Mallett Conceiving Cultures 162 While our cooking house was not unusual, it was more common for people to cook outside on a fire.

cooking range n. a large cooking stove, having hotplates on the top and one or more ovens; see range n.¹ 5a.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > stove or cooker > [noun]

range1423

buccan1611

fire-range1668

stew-stove1727

screw-range1772

stew-hole1780

cooking stove1796

range stove1803

cooking range1805

cookstove1820

kitchener1829

gas range1853

cooker1860

gas cooker1873

Soyer's stove1878

hay-box1885

blazer1889

machine oven1890

paraffin stove1891

primus1893

electric cooker1894

electric range1894

Yukon stove1898

fireless cooker1904

picnic stove1910

pressure stove1914

Tommy cooker1915

rangette1922

Aga1931

barbecue1931

Rayburn1947

sigri1949

jiko1973

1805 Chester Chron. 27 Sept. Cooking Ranges, Smoke-Jacks, Ovens, &c.

1849 H. W. Longfellow Kavanagh 21 Who wants to know about the cooking-range.

2017 Dalesman Apr. 44/1 There was a coal-fired cooking range in the centre of one wall.

cooking sherry n. low-quality sherry, typically containing salt and other preservatives, designed to be used as an ingredient in cooking; frequently used allusively and humorously with reference to its intoxicating properties.

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1868 Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 23 Mar. (advt.) Whiting & Berry's ‘Cooking Sherry’.

1897 J. K. Bangs Paste Jewels 64 ‘Had she been at the cooking-sherry?’ asked Bessie.

1939 A. L. Simon Conc. Encycl. Gastron. I. 4/1 A sweet sauce usually made with apricot jam, a little flour and some ‘cooking sherry’.

2012 S. Woods Unnatural Acts xxxviii. 234 When Stone got back to his office he found Marla, Joan, and Allison sitting in his office, giggling. ‘Did you ladies get into the cooking sherry?’ he asked.

cooking soda n. originally North American sodium bicarbonate, esp. as used in the preparation of foodstuffs and for other domestic purposes; cf. baking soda n. at baking n. Compounds 2.

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1844 Georgia Constitutionalist (Augusta) 31 Dec. (advt.) Sal Æratus, Washing and Cooking Soda.

1928 C. S. Whitehead & C. A. Hoff Ethical Sex Relations (new ed.) i. vi. 226 Instead of lime water, bicarbonate of soda (cooking soda) can be used by adding two to four grains to each bottle of milk given the child.

2019 Indian Express (Nexis) 17 Mar. Knead dough with refined flour, ghee, cooking soda and water and allow it to rest for 20 minutes.

cooking stove n. a stove used for cooking, as opposed to one used solely for heating rooms; cf. heating stove at heating n. Compounds 1.

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