cookhouse

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cookhouse

/ˈkʊkˌhaʊs/ US

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From cook + house. Used in Middle English (1296) in a name (Cokehuse), perhaps referring to a kitchen or a restaurant.

noun cookhouses

A small building where cooking takes place. I got the food ready, almost on time, then had to hunt down the two little boys whose job it was to ferry it from cookhouse to table and then serve it.

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noun a small building where cooking takes place

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@misc{cookhouse_2026,
  title = {cookhouse},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cookhouse},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}