kitchenette

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→ Brazilian Portuguese: quitinete (“small flat”)

/ˌkɪt͡ʃəˈnɛt/

From kitchen + -ette (diminutive suffix).

It is a kind of large cellar with a kitchenette and a bathroomette adjoining.

Rona disappeared into the little kitchenette and Nicol made a recce of the room.

2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 279:

A small kitchen or area for preparing food, often just a part of a room.


kitchen

kitchens (plural)
kitchin (alternative archaic)

→ Bislama: kijin

→ Bole: kicin

→ Hausa: kicin

→ Hindi: किचन (kican)

→ Fiji Hindi: kichin

→ Japanese: キッチン (kitchin), キチン (kichin)

→ Saanich: kəčən

→ Sotho: kitjhine

→ Urdu: کچن (kicin)

→ Xhosa: ikhitshi

→ Zulu: ikhishi

From Middle English kychyn, kytchen, kichene, küchen, from Old English cyċen, cyċene, from Proto-West Germanic *kukinā, a borrowing from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna (“kitchen; cuisine”), from coquō (“to cook”), from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”).
In other languages, the cognate term often refers both to the room and the type of cooking. In English, the distinction is generally made via the etymological twins kitchen (“room”) (Latin via Germanic) and cuisine (“type of cooking”) (Latin via French).

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if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen

(chiefly African-American Vernacular) The nape of a person's hairline, often referring to its uncombed or "nappy" look.

Sir Henry and Umbopo sat conversing in a mixture of broken English and kitchen Zulu, in low voices, but earnestly enough.

1885, H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines:

(attributive) A domesticated or uneducated form of a language.

Having done what was required to gain admittance to the "kitchen," as the public rooms are termed, as well as to the more exclusive "Salle Privée" […]

1925, William Rutherford Hayes Trowbridge, In the sun with a passport, page 31:

But on this June evening when Bond walked through the 'kitchen' into the salle privée, it was with a sensation of confidence and cheerful anticipation that he changed a million francs into plaques of fifty mille and took a seat […]

(slang) A public gaming room in a casino.

The region of a billiard table between the head rail and the head string.


breakfast bar

Depending on the layout, you may be able to partition off the dining area, perhaps with a countertopped unit that doubles as a breakfast bar.

1996, Creative Kitchen Decorating (Eaglemoss Publications Ltd)

A raised counter in a domestic kitchen at which light meals may be eaten, often seated on high stools.

A buffet, in a hotel dining room, laid out with breakfast items.


dish rack

A perforated rack on which washed dishes, etc. may be placed in order to dry.

сушилник

a perforated rack on which washed dishes may be placed in order to dry


kitchin

There is a fountaine of hot burning water with the which they heate the Church of the Monastery and the Fryers chambers, it commeth also into the kitchin so boyling hot, that they vse no other fire to dresse their meate: and putting their breade into brasse pots without any water, it doth bake as it were in an hot ouen.

1598, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.:

From that he led me to their kitchin; wheir ware 3 spits full of meat rosting (sometymes they have 7 when the Colledge is full).

1665-1676, Sir John Lauder, Publications of the Scottish History Society, Vol. 36:


kitchendom

From kitchen + -dom (suffix denoting a domain or jurisdiction).

suffix

What knowest thou of flowers, except, belike / To garnish meats with? hath not our good King / Who lent me thee, the flower of kitchendom, / A foolish love of flowers?

1874, Alfred Tennyson, “Gareth and Lynette”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; V), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], →OCLC, page 79:

(dated) The domain of the kitchen or people who work there.


dirty kitchen

(Philippines) A kitchen, sometimes auxiliary or situated outside the house, used primarily for preparing messy and smelly dishes or cooking with firewood or charcoal. It is also used for cooking for a large group of people.


open-plan kitchen

en-noun

open-plan kitchen (plural open-plan kitchens)

2019 February 6, “What Is an Open-Concept Kitchen?”, in New Life:

2021 August 26, “Kitchen Design Guide: Closed vs. Open-Plan Kitchens”, in MasterClass:

A kitchen without walls separating it from the rest of house. Typically, this includes the dining room and living room, and is often collectively called the great room.


invisible kitchen

invisible kitchen (plural invisible kitchens)

Polly explains: ‘The key in incorporating decorative objects into an invisible kitchen is only using objects you would see around the rest of your home too.

2022 January 13, Tanyel Mustafa, “How to do the ‘invisible kitchen’ interior design trend”, in Metro, archived from the original on 04 May 2024:

“We’ve done those kitchens where a panel goes down so you see literally nothing—even the toaster is hidden,” Nahem says, referring to what the media has lately been calling the invisible kitchen. “But the minute you take it out and put it on the counter, it throws the whole kitchen off.”

2022 February 10, James Tarmy, “‘Invisible’ Kitchens Are No Longer Cool in Hot Real Estate Market”, in Bloomberg News, archived from the original on 10 Feb 2022:

For the other half of us, there are plenty of affordable hacks and sensible investments that can “de-kitchen” a space. The invisible kitchen isn’t just a luxury proposition – after all, most of us need our kitchens to work hard and serve as more than just a room in which to cook.

2024 February 14, Fleur Britten, “How to nail the ‘invisible kitchen’ trend”, in The Telegraph, archived from the original on 14 Feb 2024:

A minimalist kitchen whose elements blend in or are hidden when not in use.