kitchen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪt͡ʃ(ɪ)n/
ipa: /ˈkɪt͡ʃ(ə)n/
rhymes: -ɪtʃɪn
rhymes: -ɪtʃən
Forms: form: kitchens
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: We cook in the kitchen.
text: Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: I always leave the stuff piled up, piled up in the sink / But you will always find him in the kitchen at parties
ref: 1980, Jona Lewie, Keef Trouble, “You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties”, performed by Jona Lewie:
glosses: A room or area for preparing food.
examples: text: I had been trained with the rigidity and discipline of the French kitchen, and now I was embracing American informality.
ref: 2011, Jacques Pépin, Essential Pépin: More Than 700 All-Time Favorites from My Life in Food, →ISBN:
text: My palate passionately lies in the savory kitchen with its salty fats and infernal flavors of chilies and spices.
ref: 2011, Daniel Orr, Paradise Kitchen: Caribbean Cooking with Chef Daniel Orr, →ISBN, page 221:
text: Kline wrote that, according to various recent surveys, the young Israeli-born generation generally preferred a Mediterranean diet and dishes from the “Oriental” kitchen.
ref: 2015, Yael Raviv, Falafel Nation: Cuisine and the Making of National Identity in Israel, →ISBN:
text: Named for the La Merced monastery, which was built in 1594 and on whose grounds the market is now located, it is just east of Mexico City's famed Zócalo plaza and is a must-visit for anyone wanting to experience the many delectable specialties of the Mexican kitchen.
ref: 2015, Mimi Sheraton, 1,000 Foods To Eat Before You Die: A Food Lover's Life List, →ISBN, page 651:
glosses: Cuisine; style of cooking.
qualifier: chiefly African-American Vernacular
glosses: The nape of a person's hairline, often referring to its uncombed or "nappy" look.
examples: text: For obvious reasons the percussion is normally arranged along the back of the platform, whether centrally or to one side, and sometimes also in two tiers, the heavy, noisier instruments behind, and the pitched, agile instruments such as vibraphone, marimba, etc. in front. An outstanding exception, however, exists in Roberto Gerhard's Epithalamion where the composer expressly desired that the all-important kitchen department be spread out in front of the strings and hence nearest the audience.
ref: 1981, Norman Del Mar, Anatomy of the Orchestra:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The percussion section of an orchestra.
examples: text: There are two modes of roasting: One is to use a tin kitchen before an open fire, and the other, and more common way, is to use a hot oven.
ref: 1897, The Warm Springs Receipt-book, page 70:
glosses: A utensil for roasting meat.
examples: text: Sir Henry and Umbopo sat conversing in a mixture of broken English and kitchen Zulu, in low voices, but earnestly enough.
ref: 1885, H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines:
glosses: A domesticated or uneducated form of a language.
examples: text: Having done what was required to gain admittance to the "kitchen," as the public rooms are termed, as well as to the more exclusive "Salle Privée" […]
ref: 1925, William Rutherford Hayes Trowbridge, In the sun with a passport, page 31:
text: But on this June evening when Bond walked through the 'kitchen' into the salle privée, it was with a sensation of confidence and cheerful anticipation that he changed a million francs into plaques of fifty mille and took a seat […]
ref: 1953, Ian Fleming, Casino Royale:
glosses: A public gaming room in a casino.
examples: text: “They,” said he, meaning the collops, “are such as I gave his Royal Highness in this very house; bating the lemon juice, for at that time we were glad to get the meat and never fashed for kitchen. Indeed, there were mair dragoons than lemons in my country in the year forty-six.”
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:
glosses: Anything eaten as a relish with bread, potatoes, etc.; a condiment.
glosses: The region of a billiard table between the head rail and the head string.
Derived terms: back kitchen
child of the kitchen
cloud kitchen
dark kitchen
dirty kitchen
everything and the kitchen sink
everything but the kitchen sink
everything including the kitchen sink
field kitchen
fork found in kitchen
Frankfurt kitchen
galley kitchen
ghost kitchen
hot bread kitchen
if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen
invisible kitchen
kitchenable
kitchenalia
kitchenary
kitchen bitch
kitchen bouquet
kitchen boy
kitchen-boy
kitchen cabinet
kitchen cake
kitchendom
kitchen drawer
kitchen dresser
kitchener
kitchenet
kitchenette
kitchen-fee
kitchenful
kitchen-garden
kitchen garden
kitchenhand
kitchen hood
kitchening
kitchen island
kitchen knife
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kitchenmaid
kitchenman
kitchenness
kitchen paper
kitchen pass
kitchen police
kitchen roll
kitchenry
kitchen salt
kitchenscape
kitchen sign
kitchen sink
kitchen sink drama
kitchen-sinkery
kitchen sink realism
kitchen sink regression
kitchen sinky
kitchen-sinky
kitchen stuff
kitchen supper
kitchen table issue
kitchen table polyamory
kitchen table software
kitchen-table software
kitchen tea
kitchen timer
kitchen towel
kitchen tunk
kitchen turner
kitchen unit
kitchen utensil
kitchenward
kitchenwards
kitchenware
kitchen witch
kitcheny
microkitchen
minikitchen
morning kitchen
mud kitchen
nonkitchen
open-plan kitchen
outkitchen
piss-kitchen
Shaker kitchen
soup kitchen
summer kitchen
tea kitchen
thieves' kitchen