请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 to cook up
释义

> as lemmas

to cook up
to cook up
1.
a. transitive. To prepare (food for a meal) by combining and heating the ingredients; to prepare (a cooked meal).
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook [verb (transitive)]
cook1596
concoct1607
to cook up1654
1654 J. Speed in E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot sig. **v Don's cook'd up according to the Lawes Of his owne Country Feasts, lesse meat then sauce.
1680 Sir T. Browne Let. 7 July in Wks. (1852) III. 468 I know no other animal wherein the rectum is cooked up.
1803 ‘C. Caustic’ Terrible Tractoration (ed. 2) iii. 122 Who cook up most delicious farings From cheese rinds.
1990 P. Auster Music of Chance v. 112 He asked Louise to cook up some breakfast for them.
2013 E. Laybourne Sky on Fire xi. 102 I was so hungry, we just cooked up some franks and beans.
b. transitive. To prepare (a drug, esp. opium or heroin) for immediate use by heating it over a flame; = sense 3a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > take drugs [verb (transitive)] > prepare opium
cook1852
to cook up1894
1894 G. Litton in Proc. Royal Comm. Opium V. App. XXVI. 224/1 in Parl. Papers (C.7473) LXII. 531 The ‘second opium’ or ‘opium excrement’..is a preparation cooked up from the refuse left in the opium pipe.
1920 F. Williams Hop-Heads 17 Dawson Sue lost no time in ‘cooking up a shot’ for her company.
1982 U.S. News & World Rep. (Nexis) 27 Dec. 60 I was cooking up ‘hits’ every 30 minutes.
2010 J. McGregor Even Dogs (2011) iii. 79 Getting a bag and then finding somewhere to go to cook it up in a spoon and dig it into your arm or your leg or that mighty old femoral vein down in between your thighs.
2. transitive. To prepare, develop, or elaborate (something); to devise, concoct. In later use frequently with somewhat negative connotations, especially of deception or fabrication. Cf. sense 5.Early examples show the word used in figurative contexts with allusion to the preparation of food (cf. sense 1b).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > contrive, devise, or invent [verb (transitive)]
findeOE
conceive1340
seek1340
brewc1386
divine1393
to find outc1405
to search outc1425
to find up?c1430
forgec1430
upfindc1440
commentc1450
to dream out1533
inventa1538
father1548
spina1575
coin1580
conceit1591
mint1593
spawn1594
cook1599
infantize1619
fabulize1633
notionate1645
to make upc1650
to spin outa1651
to cook up1655
to strike out1735
mother1788
to think up1855
to noodle out1950
gin1980
1655 J. Sergeant Schism Dis-arm'd 11 All the substantial part being already confuted an hundred times over, and only the cooking it up changed.
1684 Tryal L. Braddon & H. Speke 29 It is not taken upon Oath before any Magistrate, but cooked up to amuse the Country.
1751 J. Tasker Sufficient Reasons Relig., Conscientious & Peaceable Separation Church of Eng. 13 The reasons he has cook'd up for us..perhaps may serve him for starting-holes, when he is press'd.
1787 ‘P. Pindar’ Lousiad: Canto II 37 in Lousiad: Canto I (ed. 4) I've cook'd up a Petition.
1820 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 5 Aug. 158 These Addresses are not things cooked up by the lick-spittles of Boroughmongers;..but they come spontaneously from the people.
a1927 D. Hammett Nightmare Town (1999) 208 Tennant reeled off the story he and the girl had cooked up.
1956 Time-Bull. (Van Wert, Ohio) 2 July 4/8 By 1960 we can have an anti-missile missile. That leaves it up to someone to cook up an anti-anti-missile missile.
2007 Daily Tel. 29 June 33/1 Together, they cook up a plan to kill off her husband.
3. transitive. colloquial. To alter (something) in a dishonest, underhand, or surreptitious manner; to tamper with, to doctor; to falsify. Cf. sense 6, which is more common.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)]
nunclea1676
to cook up1686
plant1811
to work off1813
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > false assertion > assert falsely [verb (transitive)] > devise unscrupulously
cook1636
sham1679
to cook up1686
to trump upa1774
fake1810
1686 J. Weldon tr. Leon de Vennes Second Nativity of Jesus i. iv. 38 We are not as some people who Adulterate, or, according to the Greek Translation, Who cook up the word of God.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle IV. cvi. 227 Some falsified printed accounts, artfully cooked up, on purpose to mislead and deceive.
1867 Ada Moore's Story III. xii. 122 They had ‘cooked up’ the accounts, as the leading article said, and had finally absconded together.
1987 A. Djoleto Hurricane of Dust xx. 95 The People's Benefit Investigation Squad will probe you and if you are found to be playing tricks or cook up the books you lose the pharmacy to the state.
extracted from cookv.1
<
as lemmas
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/12/23 12:10:53