cookbook

noun

/ˈkʊkˌbʊk/UK/ˈkɵkˌbɵk/

Etymology

From cook + book; possibly also a calque of German Kochbuch, from kochen (“cook”) + Buch (“book”).

1
A book or an encyclopedia of recipes and cookery tips.
- They inherited an interesting nineteenth-century cookbook from their grandparents. It tells how to render lard.
2
Any book or set of strategies and tips.
- Near-synonym: playbook
- The Anarchist Cookbook
- Reading business biographies is interesting, but they are not cookbooks that can teach hacks how to be greats.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA