cookery
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cookery¹
- /ˈkʊk(ə)ɹi/
Where it comes from
From Middle English cokerie, kokery, equivalent to cook + -ery.
noun cookeries
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The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.
Henry was not very good at cookery and most of his meals ended up burned.
Similar: cooking, culinary art
- A delicacy; a dainty. I've got a bit of cookery that will astonish him — my marinated pheasants' poults a la braise imperiale.
- Cooking tools or apparatus. She directed the servants, inspected both the cookery and arrangements of the table, held council with an old steward...
- A place where cooking is done. Mr. Weller produced upon the little dining-table, a roast leg of mutton and an enormous meat-pie, with sundry dishes of vegetables, and pots of porter, which stood upon the chairs or the sofa bedstead, or where they could, everybody felt disposed to do justice to the meal, notwithstanding that the m
cookery²
noun cookeries
- Obsolete form of kukri
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: cooking, cuisine, culinary art, kitchen, grilling, concoction, baking, roasting, cheffing, preparation, compilement, eating, coloration, cultivage, combustion, consumption
Translations
Talk about this word "cookery." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/cookery. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. cookery. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/cookery "cookery." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/cookery.Cite this
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title = {cookery},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cookery},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
