cookishadj.
/ˈkʊkɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈkʊkɪʃ/ rare.
Belonging to or characteristic of a cook.
ΚΠ
1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 54v The cookish apparaile.
1844 North Amer. & Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia) 13 Aug. 1/8 He deemed that the absence of these viands would reflect on his cookish reputation.
1998 J. Barnes in New Yorker 12 Sept. 141/1 Then, with a cookish oath, I seized the potato masher and mashed the shit out of them.
Derivatives
ˈcookishly adv. in the manner of a cook; like a cook.
ΚΠ
1837 B. D. Walsh tr. Aristophanes Acharnians iv. iv, in Comedies 98 How cookishly, how dinnerly, He manages his duties.
2015 GLQ 21 77 Cookishly, ‘Laura stirred her beads with her finger’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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