| 单词 | plain cook |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplain cook plain cook n. a cook who specializes in, or most frequently prepares, plain dishes (see sense 6). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook > [noun] > plain cook plain cook1759 1759 tr. L. Ariosto Satires 37 My plain taste let a plain cook supply. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. ii. i. 175 Leonarda..passed for a very decent plain cook. 1988 S. Paretsky Blood Shot xix. 143 He was a good plain cook, self-taught as a hobby during his widowerhood. plain cook plain cook v. (transitive and intransitive) to cook plain dishes (see sense 6). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > undergo cooking [verb (intransitive)] > perform cooking cookc1400 kitchen1842 plain cooka1845 a1845 T. Hood Choice Wks. (1854) II. 30 Would you not rather dine at the cheapest ordinary at one, with all its niceties and nastities, plain cooked in a London cellar? 1991 in Gender & Soc. (1995) 9 547 You can't run to the supermarket to get things. We are plain cooking. We use salt, pepper, and onion as basic additives. < as lemmas |
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