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home-cooked

home-cooked is the alternative form of homecooked.

home-cooked is the simple past and past participle of home-cook.

Meaning of homecooked

Adjective

homecooked (not comparable)

  1. Cooked or prepared in a traditional manner as would be done at home.
    • Dish out lots of homecooked foods like pot roast, meat loaf, Maine beans and franks, homestyle fries, fish chowder and fresh-baked breads[…]1994, Vermont Life, volumes 49-50, page 7

Meaning of home-cook

Verb

home-cook (third-person singular simple present home-cooks, present participle home-cooking, simple past and past participle home-cooked)

  1. (transitive) To cook or prepare food at home.

Questions about home-cooked

What is home-cooked the alternative form of?
Home-cooked is the alternative form of homecooked.

Words near home-cooked in the dictionary

  1. home-brewed
  2. home-brewing
  3. home-brewn
  4. home-brews
  5. home-cook
  6. home-cooked
  7. home-cooking
  8. home-cooks
  9. home-dweller
  10. home-grown
  11. home-harvest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: home-cooked (page history and authors); homecooked (page history and authors); home-cook (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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