cookish

adj

cookish

adj

Etymology From cook + -ish.

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:

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