cookbook
nounAU, UK, US /ˈkʊkˌbʊk/ · UK /ˈkɵkˌbɵk/
Etymology From cook + book; possibly also a calque of German Kochbuch, from kochen (“cook”) + Buch (“book”).
1
A book or an encyclopedia of recipes and cookery tips.
- They inherited an interesting nineteenth-century cookbook from their grandparents. It tells how to render lard.
2
Broadly, Figuratively Any book or set of strategies and tips.
- Near-synonym: playbook
- The Anarchist Cookbook
1 more example
- Reading business biographies is interesting, but they are not cookbooks that can teach hacks how to be greats.
- Derived terms
- cookbookery, cookbookish, cookbooklet