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cook-house

cook-house is the alternative form of cookhouse.

Meaning of cookhouse

Noun

cookhouse (plural cookhouses)

  1. A small building where cooking takes place.
    • I got the food ready, almost on time, then had to hunt down the two little boys whose job it was to ferry it from cookhouse to table and then serve it.1979, Octavia Butler, Kindred

Forms of cook-house

pluralcook-houses

Questions about cook-house

What is cook-house the alternative form of?
Cook-house is the alternative form of cookhouse.

Words near cook-house in the dictionary

  1. Cook's tour
  2. Cook's tours
  3. cook-chill
  4. cook-chilled
  5. cook-chilling
  6. cook-house
  7. cook-houses
  8. Cook-Levin theorem
  9. cook-off
  10. cook-offs
  11. cook-stove

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cook-house (page history and authors); cookhouse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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