Definitions
the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat
Word origin
From cook + -ing. The noun and adjective follow from the verb. The use of the word cooking to describe cheap bitter was popularized by the title character of the BBC sitcom Oh No, It’s Selwyn Froggitt (1974-1978). It refers to cooking sherry, a kind of sherry used in cooking but not suitable for drinking on its own.
Used in a sentence
“The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]”
“The cooking took a long time. Fionn built a spit from the ash that the salmon had knocked down.”
“In the tiny kitchen a dozen men and a boy tried to hush their breathing, and sweltered. For it was very hot, and the pent-up odor of past cookings was stifling to men used to the open”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Preparing food”7 letters
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