cooking
coo·king
noun
1.
the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat
- “cooking can be a great art”
- “people are needed who have experience in cookery”
- “he left the preparation of meals to his wife”
Origin
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.
Phrases
- chaos cooking
- cooking base
- cooking lager
- cooking liquor
- cooking oil
- cooking sherry
- cooking show
- cooking time
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Part of
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