cooking
/ˈkʊkɪŋ/ adjective C2- 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.
- In progress, happening. · The project took a few days to gain momentum, but by the end of the week, things were really cooking.
- Cheap; better suited for use in recipes than drinking.
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He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple cooking and keeps the place clean—that’s all I have in the house, for I am a widower and never had any family.
Andrea, indeed, inhaled the scent of something cooking which was not unwelcome to him, hungry as he was; it was that mixture of fat and garlic peculiar to Provençal kitchens of an inferior order, added to that of dried fish, and above all, the pungent smell of musk and cloves.
Beside it lay some cooking utensils and a bucket half-full of water.
But the girl lived with an old woman who did not want her to marry anyone, for she was so lazy she wished the girl to remain with her and do the cooking and the housework.
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