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Cookish

name

Etymology

From cook + -ish.

  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 cookish — “cook + ish”

Definitions

  1. A surname.

  2. 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Cookish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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