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cookless, a.|ˈkʊklɪs|
[f. cook n. + -less.]
Without a cook. Hence ˈcooklessness.
c1845J. W. Howe Let. in F. Trollope Dom. Manners Amer. (1949) 54, I am again cookless. I imprudently..took a young girl, who left me in four days. 1898Cornhill Mag. Aug. 255 The good old schoolroom days when one's dear mother used sometimes to admit that she ‘had been cookless for six weeks’. 1904‘Alan Dale’ Wanted: a Cook Ded., To Jennie Shalek: housewife, who, in my hour of drab and dreary cooklessness, when my heart fainted, and tragedy impended, sent her four fair daughters to my aid. 1928Sunday Express 6 May 15 Catherine Ives... ‘When the Cook is Away.’.. In coming to the rescue of the cookless—from whatever cause—the author has collected also an attractive assortment of recipes. |