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kitchen

[kich-uhn]

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noun

a room or place equipped for cooking.

culinary department; cuisine: This restaurant has a fine Italian kitchen.

the staff or equipment of a kitchen.

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adjective

of, pertaining to, or designed for use in a kitchen: kitchen window; kitchen curtains.

employed in or assigned to a kitchen: kitchen help.

of or resembling a pidginized language, especially one used for communication between employers and servants or other employees who do not speak the same language.

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Kitchen is always a great word to know.

So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a fool or simpleton; ninny.

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Origin:
before 1000; Middle English kichene, Old English cycene ≪ Latin coquīna, equivalent to coqu(ere) to cook + -īna -ine¹; compare cuisine

Related forms

kitch·en·less, adjective

kitch·en·y, adjective

out·kitch·en, noun

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Example Sentences

If you have any extra food items or canned goods, take them to a soup kitchen.

As he pretends to prepare food, his movements are transmitted to a robot chef in a real kitchen elsewhere in the building.

When they go to the kitchen to see if there is food, they are surprised to find that there is some and it hasn't expired.

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kitchen (ˈkɪtʃɪn)

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	a. a room or part of a building equipped for preparing and cooking food
	b. (as modifier): a kitchen table

[Old English cycene, ultimately from Late Latin coquīna, from Latin coquere to cook; see kiln]

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Word Origin & History

kitchen

O.E. cycene, from W.Gmc. *kocina (cf. M.Du. cökene, O.H.G. chuhhina, Ger. Küche, Dan. kjøkken), probably borrowed from V.L. *cocina (cf. Fr. cuisine, Sp. cocina), variant of L. coquina "kitchen," from fem. of coquinus "of cooks," from coquus "cook," from coquere "to cook" (see

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cook (n.)). Kitchen cabinet "informal but powerful set of advisors" is Amer.Eng. slang, 1832, originally in ref. to administration of President Andrew Jackson. Kitchen midden (1863) in archaeology translates Dan. kjøkken mødding. The New York City neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen is first attested 1894. Kitchenette is from 1910, Amer.Eng. Phrase everything but the kitchen sink is from World War II armed forces slang, in ref. to intense bombardment.

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Idioms & Phrases

kitchen

see everything but the kitchen sink; if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.