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cooken

cooken is the past participle of cook.

cooken is the pronunciation spelling of cooking.

Meaning of cook

Verb

cook (third-person singular simple present cooks, present participle cooking, simple past cooked, past participle cooked or (rare, nonstandard) cooken)

  1. (ambitransitive, generally) To prepare food for eating, typically by heating it, combining it with other ingredients, seasoning it, preparing it for serving, etc.
    • I'm cooking bangers and mash.
  2. (specifically, transitive) To apply heat to food in the course of preparing it, particularly in a way that transforms it rather than simply making it warmer.
    • You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with...2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better, Plum, →ISBN, page 192
  3. (intransitive) To undergo cooking.
    • The dinner is cooking on the stove.
  4. (transitive) To smelt.
    • Your suggestion makes sense. You cook iron with coal to get... iron. The coal is expended, where does it go? inside the iron to turn it into steel in real life. I approve2011 February 10, Oventoaster, “Iron items to Steel”, in Minecraft Forum
  5. (figuratively, intransitive) To be uncomfortably hot.
    • Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.
    Synonyms:
    bake, stew
  6. (slang, transitive) To kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation.
    • You would die from what we might call "extremely acute radiation poisoning" – that is, you would be cooked.2014, Randall Munroe, “Periodic Wall of the Elements”, in What If?, New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 41

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Meaning of cooking

Noun

cooking (countable and uncountable, plural cookings)

  1. (uncountable) The process of preparing food by using heat.
    • The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]1913, Robert Barr, chapter 6, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad
  2. (countable, rare) An instance of preparing food by using heat.
    • In the tiny kitchen a dozen men and a boy tried to hush their breathing, and sweltered. For it was very hot, and the pent-up odor of past cookings was stifling to men used to the open1904, Winston Churchill, The Crossing, page 1
  3. (uncountable) One's ability to prepare food; cookery.
    • My cooking isn't very good. I don't have any idea how to prepare a good meal.
  4. (uncountable) The style or genre of food preparation.
    • What you've produced is a perfect example of authentic Chinese cooking.
    Synonyms:
    culinary art
  5. (uncountable) The cheapest available beer for sale in a public house.
    • ‘Pint of bitter, please,” said Reggie. ‘Pint of cooking,” said the landlord.2009, David Nobbs, Reginald Perrin Omnibus: (Reginald Perrin), page 189

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Origin of cooken

From cook + -en.

Questions about cooken

What is cooken the past participle of?
Cooken is the past participle of cook.

Words near cooken in the dictionary

  1. cookedness
  2. cookee
  3. cookees
  4. cookeite
  5. cookeites
  6. cooken
  7. cooker
  8. cooker hood
  9. cooker hoods
  10. cookeress
  11. cookeresses

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