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Added 10 October 2026

cookery

/ˈkʊk(ə)ɹi/ noun

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about cookery at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.
Henry was not very good at cookery and most of his meals ended up burned.
A delicacy; a dainty.
Cooking tools or apparatus.

noun

Obsolete form of kukri.

Origin

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

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