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cookish

cookish adjective: resembling or characteristic of a cook.

Adjective

cookish (comparative more cookish, superlative most cookish)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a cook.
    • With a cookish oath, I left the bullied half-chicory in place, crammed a couple more edgeways down the side of the chops, and put the fourth (the one I have just measured) back in the fridge. First crisis over.2012, Julian Barnes, The Pedant in the Kitchen

Proper noun capitalized: Cookish

Cookish

  1. A surname.

Forms of cookish

comparativemore cookish
superlativemost cookish

Origin of cookish

From cook + -ish.

Questions about cookish

What does cookish mean?
Cookish means resembling or characteristic of a cook.
What part of speech is cookish?
Cookish can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near cookish in the dictionary

  1. cooking with gas
  2. cooking-pot
  3. cooking-pots
  4. cookings
  5. cookingware
  6. cookish
  7. cookless
  8. cooklessness
  9. Cookley
  10. cookline
  11. cooklines

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