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Cooking
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- 1 Designed or suitable for culinary purposes. not-comparable
"I filled the cooking pot with water."
- 2 In progress, happening. informal, not-comparable
"The project took a few days to gain momentum, but by the end of the week, things were really cooking."
- 3 Cheap; better suited for use in recipes than drinking. not-comparable
"Bone a shoulder of mutton and lay in the following pickle for 24 hours, viz.:…half pint of cooking claret…and long peppers."
- 1 The process of preparing food by using heat. uncountable
"The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]"
- 2 the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat wordnet
- 3 An instance of preparing food by using heat. countable, rare
"In the tiny kitchen a dozen men and a boy tried to hush their breathing, and sweltered. For it was very hot, and the pent-up odor of past cookings was stifling to men used to the open"
- 4 The result of preparing food by using heat.; One's ability to prepare food; cookery. uncountable
"My cooking isn't very good. I don't have any idea how to prepare a good meal."
- 5 The result of preparing food by using heat.; The style or genre of food preparation. uncountable
"What you've produced is a perfect example of authentic Chinese cooking."
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- 6 The cheapest available beer for sale in a public house. uncountable
"‘Pint of bitter, please,” said Reggie. ‘Pint of cooking,” said the landlord."
- 1 present participle and gerund of cook form-of, gerund, participle, present
Etymology
From cook + -ing. The noun and adjective follow from the verb. The use of the word cooking to describe cheap bitter was popularized by the title character of the BBC sitcom Oh No, It’s Selwyn Froggitt (1974-1978). It refers to cooking sherry, a kind of sherry used in cooking but not suitable for drinking on its own.
From cook + -ing. The noun and adjective follow from the verb. The use of the word cooking to describe cheap bitter was popularized by the title character of the BBC sitcom Oh No, It’s Selwyn Froggitt (1974-1978). It refers to cooking sherry, a kind of sherry used in cooking but not suitable for drinking on its own.
From cook + -ing. The noun and adjective follow from the verb. The use of the word cooking to describe cheap bitter was popularized by the title character of the BBC sitcom Oh No, It’s Selwyn Froggitt (1974-1978). It refers to cooking sherry, a kind of sherry used in cooking but not suitable for drinking on its own.
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