kitchening

kitchening is the present participle and gerund of kitchen.

Noun

kitchening (countable and uncountable, plural kitchenings)

Food preparation.
- There is a large open fireplace, and a good front piazza, to feet by 30, with a smaller porch in the rear, and an enclosed shed, for purposes of light kitchening.1901, Friends' Intelligencer and Journal - Volume 58, page 320
- Those that are stewed or boiled often betray in their unsatisfactory savor a lack of completeness in the kitchening process — beans, beets, corn, cauliflower, tomatoes, etc., usually exhibiting this defect — and thus is loaded on the digestive function a burden that normal cooking could never...1918, Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association
The embellishment of basic food items.
- A pinch of salt was a basic kitchening, but a good meal offered that plus a drink and a bit of something else - the "sup" and the "bit."2011, John Thorne, Matt Lewis Thorne, Pot on the Fire: Further Confessions of a Renegade Cook, →ISBN

kitchen (third-person singular simple present kitchens, present participle kitchening, simple past and past participle kitchened)

To do kitchen work; to prepare food.
- A dress scarcely suited to woodland kitchening was defended by an apron borrowed from the maid.1842, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, Forest Life - Volume 2, page 52
To embellish a basic food; to season, add condiments, etc.
- I have found it so, for whenever I saw the meal and potatoes running low, I spared them, and kitchened them all I could, and never was run out of them till the new came in.1817, Mrs. Edgworth, Tales of Real Life, Or, Scenes in Ireland
(broadly) To embellish; to dress up.
- His Maker has not so endowed him as to lay him under the necessity of kitchening, so to speak, a slender share of talent, and, by rigid economy, make it go as far as possible.1830, The Imperial Magazine

plural	kitchenings

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

From kitchen (verb) + -ing (gerund ending).

What does kitchening mean?: Kitchening means food preparation.
What is kitchening the present participle and gerund of?: Kitchening is the present participle and gerund of kitchen.
What part of speech is kitchening?: Kitchening is a noun.
What is the plural of kitchening?: The plural of kitchening is kitchenings.

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