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cooking

noun
/ˈkʊkɪŋ/UK/ˈkɵkɪŋ/

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.

  1. borrowed from cocō — “to cook”
  2. inherited from *kokōn✻ — “to cook”
  3. inherited from *pekʷ-✻ — “to cook, become ripe”
  4. derived from cocus
  5. inherited from cōc — “a cook”
  6. inherited from cook
  7. suffixed as cooking — “cook + ing”

Definitions

  1. The process of preparing food by using heat.

    • 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, […]
    • The cooking took a long time. Fionn built a spit from the ash that the salmon had knocked down.

  2. An instance of preparing food by using heat.

    • 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
    • This culinary process is but the first in a series of cookings, of which the intracorporeal cookings constitute the rest.
    • Historian Madeleine Pelner Cosman addresses the multiple cookings of single dishes in medieval recipes. Why would a veal stew require four changes of pot and five separate cookings?

  3. The result of preparing food by using heat.

    • My cooking isn't very good. I don't have any idea how to prepare a good meal.
    • I missed my mum's cooking while I was at university.
    • "I know his cooking is bad, but […]" She fluffed the pillows and placed them behind Suzanne's neck. "I thought Josh's cooking was much worse than Matt's, but I guess the bad-cook crown goes to the big guy."
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. The cheapest available beer for sale in a public house.

      • ‘Pint of bitter, please,” said Reggie. ‘Pint of cooking,” said the landlord.

    2. Designed or suitable for culinary purposes.

      • I filled the cooking pot with water.
      • This tree bears cooking apples.

    3. In progress, happening.

      • The project took a few days to gain momentum, but by the end of the week, things were really cooking.

    4. Cheap

      Cheap; better suited for use in recipes than drinking.

      • Bone a shoulder of mutton and lay in the following pickle for 24 hours, viz.:…half pint of cooking claret…and long peppers.
      • JOHN JASPER: Mama says for you to come on upstairs and bring her a pint of cooking sherry. BODIDDLY: You know your Mama ain’t gonna do no cooking this time of the night!
      • Add 1 pint of cooking sherry and boil again for 30 minutes.

    5. present participle and gerund of cook

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at cooking. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01cooking02heat03energy04capacity05absorb06drink07beverages08beverage09liquor

A definitional loop anchored at cooking. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at cooking

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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