kitchen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪt͡ʃ(ɪ)n/
ipa: /ˈkɪt͡ʃ(ə)n/
rhymes: -ɪtʃɪn
rhymes: -ɪtʃən
Forms: form: kitchens
form: kitchening
form: kitchened
form: kitchened
form: kitchin
Etymology: From Middle English kychyn, kytchen, kichene, küchen, from Old English cyċen, cyċene, from Proto-West Germanic *kukinā, a borrowing from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna (“kitchen; cuisine”), from coquō (“to cook”), from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”).
In other languages, the cognate term often refers both to the room and the type of cooking. In English, the distinction is generally made via the etymological twins kitchen (“room”) (Latin via Germanic) and cuisine (“type of cooking”) (Latin via French).
Senses: examples: text: A dress scarcely suited to woodland kitchening was defended by an apron borrowed from the maid.
ref: 1842, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, Forest Life - Volume 2, page 52:
text: "...May I ? " added the speaker, and forthwith took his answer from his master's smile ; "may I respectfully see what the old one has kitchened for you when I was not there ? "
ref: 1899, Egerton Castle -, The Light of Scarthey: A Romance, page 10:
text: Instinctively they moved toward community canning, community baking, community kitchening on the grand scale to release energy for other war exigencies.
ref: 1920, Suffragist - Volumes 8-9, page 239:
text: From somewhere through the series of connecting rooms she smelled food, the stabbing odor of onions cooking, a distantly familiar spice, heard the clatter of women kitchening.
ref: 1979, Barbara Ninde Byfield, A parcel of their fortunes, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: To do kitchen work; to prepare food.
examples: text: I have found it so, for whenever I saw the meal and potatoes running low, I spared them, and kitchened them all I could, and never was run out of them till the new came in.
ref: 1817, Mrs. Edgworth, Tales of Real Life, Or, Scenes in Ireland:
text: I "kitchened" my loaf, as they say in Scotland, with a pennyworth of butter, and occasionally with lettuce or a few radishes in their season ; and the beverage with which I regaled myself, after my meals, was a glass of water from the nearest pump.
ref: 1851, John Mackay Wilson, Tales of the Borders and of Scotland:
text: The green hill slopes are dotted over with sheep and lambs nibbling away at their morning meal, kitchened with blabs of sparkling dew, and higher up the mountain side we hear the " cootie moorcock's coothy craw."
ref: 1893, Malcolm Ferguson, Fishing Incidents and Adventures:
text: This was seasoned with salt and sometimes kitchened with butter.
ref: 1907, Thomas Finlayson Henderson, Francis Watt, Scotland of to-day, page 358:
glosses: To embellish a basic food; to season, add condiments, etc.
examples: text: His Maker has not so endowed him as to lay him under the necessity of kitchening, so to speak, a slender share of talent, and, by rigid economy, make it go as far as possible.
ref: 1830, The Imperial Magazine:
text: But as in his novels and other work there is a 'kitchening' of the material, a tentativeness.
ref: 2003, Patrick Kavanagh, Antoinette Quinn, A Poet's Country: Selected Prose, →ISBN, page 211:
glosses: To embellish; to dress up.