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kookery

kookery is the archaic form of kukri.

Meaning of kukri

Noun

kukri (plural kukris)

  1. A curved Nepalese knife used especially by Gurkha fighters; many variants exist, but all share recurve as a common theme.
    • In the later part of the Second World War it was customary in the French army to vaunt the ferocity of ‘their’ Algerian Tirailleurs against the Germans, much as the British took pride in the deeds performed by the Gurkhas with their terrible kukris.1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 171
    Synonyms:
    Gurkha knife

Noun

kookery (uncountable)

  1. (US, slang) The state or quality of being a kook.

Synonyms of kookery

Forms of kookery

pluralkookeries

Origin of kookery

From kook + -ery.

Questions about kookery

What does kookery mean?
Kookery means the state or quality of being a kook.
What is kookery the archaic form of?
Kookery is the archaic form of kukri.
What part of speech is kookery?
Kookery is a noun.
What is the plural of kookery?
The plural of kookery is kookeries.

Words near kookery in the dictionary

  1. kookdance
  2. kookdom
  3. kookeree
  4. kookerees
  5. kookeries
  6. kookery
  7. kookfest
  8. kookfests
  9. kookie
  10. kookier
  11. kookies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kookery (page history and authors); kukri (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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