cooking

Meaning

1. The process of preparing food by using heat.
2. An instance of preparing food by using heat.
3. The result of preparing food by using heat.
4. The result of preparing food by using heat.
5. The cheapest available beer for sale in a public house; cooking bitter or cooking lager.

cookery

cuisine

culinary arts

fuel and water

preparing food

preparing meal

making a dish

causing digestion

business of a cook

manner of cooking

food preparation

preparing the grub

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkʊk.ɪŋ/

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).

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cook

1. A person who prepares food.
2. The head cook of a manor house.
3. The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
4. (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
5. (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
6. A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
7. An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.