cooking

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The activity of preparing food by heating it.

   Cooking can be a great art.

2. 2
   noun

   The food that someone prepares, or the way they prepare it.

   My cooking isn't very good, and I have no idea how to make a proper meal.

3. 3
   adj

   Made or used for cooking food.

   I filled the cooking pot with water.

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.

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