cookish

See also: Cookish

English

Etymology

cook +‎ -ish

Adjective

cookish (comparative more cookish, superlative most cookish)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a cook.
   • 2012, Julian Barnes, The Pedant in the Kitchen:

     With a cookish oath, I left the bullied half-chicory in place, crammed a couple more edgeways down the side of the chops, and put the fourth (the one I have just measured) back in the fridge. First crisis over.