单词 | cooked |
释义 | cookedadj. 1. a. Of food: made suitable for eating by the application of heat; (of a meal or dish) prepared by combining and heating the ingredients. Also in figurative contexts: prepared, elaborated. In early use frequently with modifying word. home-cooked, slow-cooked, well-cooked, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [adjective] > cooked concoct1534 cooked1611 slow-cooking1914 1611 J. Downham 2nd Pt. Christian Warfare ii. xxvi. 598 Seeking to please their dainty pallet, with delicate drinks, and curious cooked meats. 1614 E. Parr Grounds Diuinitie To Rdr. sig. A7 Such cooked conceits where the cost is greater then the nourishment. 1652 C. Manuche Bastard Epil. sig. M We hop'd to please: if ought disgust, We wish You'ld think it but an ill-cookt Spanish Dish. 1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. II. iii. 115 Whether the flesh is raw or cooked. 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 371 Cooked and tinned Salmon. 1919 Outing Mar. 342/2 The only cooked food he seemed to like was corn-cakes. 2005 R. Bean Harvest 87 It's living in I want. A fried breakfast, cooked dinner, and a decent tea. 2005 Delicious Nov. (Oktoberfest Suppl.) 5/3 Serve the cooked sausages with the sauerkraut and cooked and peeled waxy potatoes. b. That has been altered by heat, esp. that of the sun, so as to become dry, brittle, hard, etc. [In quot. 1854 translating Italian terra-cotta (see etymology at terra-cotta n.).] ΚΠ 1854 Hort. Rev. & Bot. Mag. 4 428/1 Without this cooked earth or terra cotta (to quote the words of the New York Tribune), ‘civilization would make but a poor figure.’ 1987 T. Winton Blood & Water (1993) 227 The whole car stank of sweat and cooked upholstery. 2003 K. L. Morris Greyhound God (e-book ed.) Everything I saw all around me looked cooked and dead, the weeds dry and yellow, the corn curled and brown at the ends. 2. slang. In predicative use. a. Extremely tired; exhausted. Cf. baked adj. 4a. ΚΠ 1793 Louisa Mathews I. xviii. 153 At the ninth dance, he was cooked completely; at the tenth, he was absolutely dished; and, at the twelfth, he was quite done up. a1868 H. Meade Ride through Disturbed Districts N.Z. (1870) v. 139 We left again for Tapuae-haruru as soon as a fresh horse could be caught for me, the sturdy black being rather ‘cooked’ from the effects of the previous day's gallop. 1913 A. Lunn Harrovians iv. 88 They were utterly cooked. They had ceased to have any conscious control of their muscles. 2019 @KTMAndy 21 July in twitter.com (accessed 22 July 2019) Well, I didn't get the PB, I was cooked after about 5k. b. In serious trouble or difficulty; ruined, finished; on the point of death, dead. Cf. cook v.1 7. ΚΠ 1857 Argus (Melbourne) 31 Mar. 4/7 Williams asked me how Mr. Price was... I answered ‘He is not dead yet.’ He said, ‘I thought he was cooked.’ 1948 E. B. White Let. June 295 I was pretty sure I was cooked, as far as ever showing up for my graduation exercises next morning. 2009 J. Stephens Targets of Deception xxix. 154 If we walk out of here now and anyone catches up with us, they'll figure we know too much already. So we're cooked either way. c. Chiefly North American. Intoxicated by alcohol; drunk. Also: intoxicated by a recreational drug, esp. marijuana; high. Cf. baked adj. 4b. ΚΠ 1920 Bridgeport (Conn.) Telegram 8 May 18/4 Prohibition hasn't grabbed England yet... The boys are taking the cook's tours in order to get cooked. 1984 R. Daglish tr. M. Sholokhov Quiet flows Don iv. vii. in Coll. Wks. V. 59 The Cossacks who had witnessed the scene..watched him go, muttering amongst themselves. ‘He's cooked! Can't hold his liquor, though he is a general.’ 2019 @mylodachef 26 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 22 July 2019) Someone come and bring my ass some weed. Big mon wants to get cooked. 3. colloquial. Esp. of account books or other financial records: fraudulently altered; doctored, falsified. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [adjective] > defrauding or swindling cheatingc1555 sharking1608 shaving1611 rooking1631 sharping1691 black-legged1761 swindling1774 managed1810 cooked1849 bunco-steering1875 blue sky and hot air1905 blue skies1925 1849 John Bull 5 May 284/1 Circumstances of themselves which cannot fail to..give the public some security against ‘cooked’ accounts or fraudulent dividends. 1861 Illustr. London News 30 Mar. 285/3 A placard headed ‘Cooked statement of income and expenditure.’ 1861 Sat. Rev. 14 Sept. 266 Cooked statistics and unsound theories. 1971 V. Canning Queen's Pawn ii. 24 And a brilliant, shameless fraud it was, cooked books, false receipts and contracts and a warehouse stock which was three hundred per cent overvalued. 2001 Korea Herald (Nexis) 28 Apr. To root out instances of..cooked account books, the government will introduce an audit program. Compounds cooked breakfast n. chiefly British a breakfast consisting of hot food; spec. a substantial breakfast, typically including hot food such as bacon and eggs (cf. English breakfast n. (a) at English adj. and n. Compounds 1c, Irish breakfast n. (a) at Irish adj. and n. Compounds 3).In early use not a fixed collocation. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > breakfast or morning meal forme-metea1175 breakfast1463 disjune1491 jentation1599 jenticulation1658 meat breakfast1728 English breakfast1773 déjeuner1787 dejeune1788 fork-breakfast1812 tea-breakfast1825 cooked breakfast1848 chota hazri1863 hunt-breakfast1877 petit déjeuner1879 brekker1889 brekkie1904 Continental breakfast1911 prayer breakfast1930 Oslo breakfast1937 fry1959 1848 Knickerbocker Mar. 223 Had Madam Nature..made vines to bear good cooked breakfasts..we doubt whether man or womankind would have been as well satisfied. 1956 Daily Mail 28 May 8/7 A full cooked breakfast of the kind taken for granted here when using (or abusing) hotel breakfasts. 2018 Express Online (Nexis) 1 Nov. You'll get the usual cooked breakfast but with a local [Ulster] twist—they add potato and soda bread to the sausages, eggs and bacon. 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