Cookish

adj, name

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling or characteristic of a cook.

    "With a cookish oath, I left the bullied half-chicory in place, crammed a couple more edgeways down the side of the chops, and put the fourth (the one I have just measured) back in the fridge. First crisis over."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Example

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"With a cookish oath, I left the bullied half-chicory in place, crammed a couple more edgeways down the side of the chops, and put the fourth (the one I have just measured) back in the fridge. First crisis over."

Etymology

From cook + -ish.

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