cookery

Meaning

  1. (countable, uncountable) The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.
  2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A delicacy; a dainty.
  3. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Cooking tools or apparatus.
  4. (archaic, countable, uncountable) A place where cooking is done.

Frequency

32k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkʊkəɹi/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle English cokerie, kokery, equivalent to cook + -ery.

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