cookbookn.

Brit.

/ˈkʊkbʊk/, U.S.

/ˈkʊkˌbʊk/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cook v.¹, book n.

Etymology: < cook v.¹ + book n., perhaps after a form in another Germanic language (compare Dutch kookboek (1560), German kochbuch (16th cent.), Swedish kokbok (1650)). Compare earlier cookery book n. at cookery n. Compounds 2.

In early use chiefly U.S.

1. A book containing recipes and other information about the preparation and cooking of food; a cookery book.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cookery-book > [noun]

cookery book1639

recipe book1803

cookbook1809

receipt book1873

1809 R. Tyler Yankey in London xlv. 179 An assortment of culinary reviews, vulgarly called cook-books.

1881 Mrs. F. E. Owens (title) Cook Book, and useful Hints for the Household.

1912 Amer. Homes & Gardens Jan. p. x Nearly every woman loves to look over a cookbook, and the one who has the meals to prepare enjoys it most of all.

2008 R. Miller Private Lives Pippa Lee 31 She thumbed through a luxuriously illustrated cookbook: osso buco. Lamb Milanese. Spaghetti all vongole.

2. A book, document, etc., containing clear and comprehensive instructions on a particular subject.Apparently recorded earliest with reference to chemistry.

ΚΠ

1921 Monthly Abstr. Bull. (Eastman Kodak Company) May 208 Volume two consists of..directions for the preparation of an enormous number of organic compounds... A veritable cook book for organic chemists.

1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 1051/1 Since the time of Galton the statistical cookbook has become standard equipment for the aspiring research worker in the social sciences and much of medicine.

2006 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 3 Nov. i. 5/5 A senior diplomat said atomic experts..had studied the nuclear documents on the military Web site and judged their public release as potentially dangerous. ‘It's a cookbook,’ said the diplomat.

Compounds

C1. General use as a modifier in sense 1, as in cookbook author, cookbook recipe, cookbook shelf, etc.

ΚΠ

1858 A. C. Johnson Peasant Life in Germany xvii. 255 The regular cook-book receipt for making Sauerkraut is the following: ‘Take whitehead cabbage, [etc.]’.

1916 Argonaut 9 Dec. 392/2 Altogether it is a valuable and informing treatise.., and should find its way to the cook-book shelf in every household.

1976 C. Fredericks High-fiber Way to Total Health xii. 77 The amount of sugar specified in many cookbook recipes can be reduced.

2016 Yuma (Arizona) Sun 8 June b3/1 Every year, I ask the best chefs and cookbook authors to send me their healthiest and tastiest spring recipes.

C2. As a modifier (usually derogatory), with the sense ‘that treats something in an over simplistic or prescriptive way; limited, unimaginative’, as in cookbook knowledge, cookbook medicine, etc.Apparently recorded earliest with reference to chemistry.

ΚΠ

1899 Proc. Amer. Chem. Soc. 51 The speaker discussed ‘Short Methods’ in chemical analysis and..the danger of..teaching them at the expense of the training of students in chemical science, thus giving a sort of ‘cook-book’ knowledge of chemical processes.

1907 Sierra Educ. News (Calif. Teachers Assoc.) Mar. 28/1 I do not wish to see the time when the love and glory of learning will degenerate into a striving for a sort of cookbook knowledge for skill born of the rule of thumb.

1981 M. G. Bradford in N. Wrigley & R. J. Bennett Quantitative Geogr. xxxviii. 408/1 With many syllabuses requiring..the study of sampling, but few the standard error of the mean, there is a grave danger of cook-book learning with little understanding.

2013 Wall St. Jrnl. 19 Feb. d4/4 The authors blame ‘cookbook medicine’, a fixed approach to diagnosis that focuses on a patient's chief complaint and ruling out the worse-case scenario.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	cookbook
释义	cookbookn. Brit. /ˈkʊkbʊk/, U.S. /ˈkʊkˌbʊk/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cook v.¹, book n. Etymology: < cook v.¹ + book n., perhaps after a form in another Germanic language (compare Dutch kookboek (1560), German kochbuch (16th cent.), Swedish kokbok (1650)). Compare earlier cookery book n. at cookery n. Compounds 2. In early use chiefly U.S. 1. A book containing recipes and other information about the preparation and cooking of food; a cookery book. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cookery-book > [noun] cookery book1639 recipe book1803 cookbook1809 receipt book1873 1809 R. Tyler Yankey in London xlv. 179 An assortment of culinary reviews, vulgarly called cook-books. 1881 Mrs. F. E. Owens (title) Cook Book, and useful Hints for the Household. 1912 Amer. Homes & Gardens Jan. p. x Nearly every woman loves to look over a cookbook, and the one who has the meals to prepare enjoys it most of all. 2008 R. Miller Private Lives Pippa Lee 31 She thumbed through a luxuriously illustrated cookbook: osso buco. Lamb Milanese. Spaghetti all vongole. 2. A book, document, etc., containing clear and comprehensive instructions on a particular subject.Apparently recorded earliest with reference to chemistry. ΚΠ 1921 Monthly Abstr. Bull. (Eastman Kodak Company) May 208 Volume two consists of..directions for the preparation of an enormous number of organic compounds... A veritable cook book for organic chemists. 1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 1051/1 Since the time of Galton the statistical cookbook has become standard equipment for the aspiring research worker in the social sciences and much of medicine. 2006 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 3 Nov. i. 5/5 A senior diplomat said atomic experts..had studied the nuclear documents on the military Web site and judged their public release as potentially dangerous. ‘It's a cookbook,’ said the diplomat. Compounds C1. General use as a modifier in sense 1, as in cookbook author, cookbook recipe, cookbook shelf, etc. ΚΠ 1858 A. C. Johnson Peasant Life in Germany xvii. 255 The regular cook-book receipt for making Sauerkraut is the following: ‘Take whitehead cabbage, [etc.]’. 1916 Argonaut 9 Dec. 392/2 Altogether it is a valuable and informing treatise.., and should find its way to the cook-book shelf in every household. 1976 C. Fredericks High-fiber Way to Total Health xii. 77 The amount of sugar specified in many cookbook recipes can be reduced. 2016 Yuma (Arizona) Sun 8 June b3/1 Every year, I ask the best chefs and cookbook authors to send me their healthiest and tastiest spring recipes. C2. As a modifier (usually derogatory), with the sense ‘that treats something in an over simplistic or prescriptive way; limited, unimaginative’, as in cookbook knowledge, cookbook medicine, etc.Apparently recorded earliest with reference to chemistry. ΚΠ 1899 Proc. Amer. Chem. Soc. 51 The speaker discussed ‘Short Methods’ in chemical analysis and..the danger of..teaching them at the expense of the training of students in chemical science, thus giving a sort of ‘cook-book’ knowledge of chemical processes. 1907 Sierra Educ. News (Calif. Teachers Assoc.) Mar. 28/1 I do not wish to see the time when the love and glory of learning will degenerate into a striving for a sort of cookbook knowledge for skill born of the rule of thumb. 1981 M. G. Bradford in N. Wrigley & R. J. Bennett Quantitative Geogr. xxxviii. 408/1 With many syllabuses requiring..the study of sampling, but few the standard error of the mean, there is a grave danger of cook-book learning with little understanding. 2013 Wall St. Jrnl. 19 Feb. d4/4 The authors blame ‘cookbook medicine’, a fixed approach to diagnosis that focuses on a patient's chief complaint and ruling out the worse-case scenario. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1809
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