单词 | to cook up |
释义 | > as lemmasto 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. < as lemmas |
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