cookbook
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 20
- Words With Friends
- 22
- Letters
- 8
/ˈkʊkˌbʊk/
(US)
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/ˈkʊkˌbʊk/ (US) · /ˈkɵkˌbɵk/ · /ˈkuːkˌbuːk/ · /ˈkʉkˌbʉk/
Definition of cookbook
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A book or an encyclopedia of recipes and cookery tips.
“They inherited an interesting nineteenth-century cookbook from their grandparents. It tells how to render lard.”
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noun
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A book or an encyclopedia of recipes and cookery tips.
“They inherited an interesting nineteenth-century cookbook from their grandparents. It tells how to render lard.”
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(broadly, figuratively)Any book or set of strategies and tips.
“Near-synonym: playbook”
“The Anarchist Cookbook”
“Reading business biographies is interesting, but they are not cookbooks that can teach hacks how to be greats.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From cook + book; possibly also a calque of German Kochbuch, from kochen (“cook”) + Buch (“book”).
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