cooking
Designed or suitable for culinary purposesDesigned or suitable for culinary purposes.
Meaning
3 senses(not comparable)Designed or suitable for culinary purposes.
I filled the cooking pot with water, and poured some cooking sherry into the skillet.
This tree bears cooking apples.
(informal, not comparable)In progress, happening.
The project took a few days to gain momentum, but by the end of the week, things were really cooking.
(not comparable)Cheap; better suited for use in recipes than drinking.
Origin
From cook + -ing. The noun and adjective follow from the verb. The use of the word cookingFrom 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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