cookery

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking. countable,uncountable
    — Henry was not very good at cookery and most of his meals ended up burned.
  2. Obsolete form of kukri. alt-of,obsolete
  3. A delicacy; a dainty. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — I've got a bit of cookery that will astonish him — my marinated pheasants' poults a la braise imperiale.
  4. Cooking tools or apparatus. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — She directed the servants, inspected both the cookery and arrangements of the table, held council with an old steward...
  5. A place where cooking is done. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — 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 meat had been purchased, and dressed, and the pie made, and baked, at the prison cookery hard by.

词形变化

cookeries plural cookeries plural

词汇关系

衍生词
cookery book

词源

From Middle English cokerie, kokery, equivalent to cook + -ery.
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