mortar

en-noun

mortar (countable and uncountable, plural mortars)

→ Indonesian: mortar

From Middle English morter, from Old French mortier, from Latin mortārium. Doublet of mortarium.

The holy hearth! If any earthly and material thing, or rather a divine idea embodied in brick and mortar, might be supposed to possess the permanence of moral truth, it was this.

1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Fire Worship”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:

(uncountable) A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.

раство́р

строительный, цементный

(countable) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.

(countable, military, historical) A short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories.

(countable, military) A relatively lightweight, often portable indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a base plate and is designed to lob explosive shells at very steep trajectories.

هَاوُن

lightweight indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a base plate


dish

dish (countable and uncountable, plural dishes)

Tok Pisin: dis

From Middle English dissh, disch, from Old English disċ (“plate; bowl; dish”), from Proto-West Germanic *disk (“table; dish”) (whence also Proto-Slavic *dъska, whence Bulgarian дъска́ (dǎská), Polish deska, Russian доска́ (doská)), Russian чан (čan)) from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, disk, and diskos.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots disch (“dish; plate”), Dutch dis (“table”), German Low German Disk, Disch (“table”), German Tisch (“table”), Danish disk (“dish; counter”), Swedish disk (“dish; counter”), Icelandic diskur (“dish; plate”), Finnish tiski (“desk, counter; dish”).
Compare the identical meaning expansion (vessel for food, then also content of such a vessel, then also specific type of food): Bulgarian блю́до (bljúdo), Russian блю́до (bljúdo).

doublet

It's your turn to wash the dishes.

en:in the plural, dirty dishes needing cleaning

(in the plural) Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.

the dish of a wheel

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909

(dated) The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.


plate

→ Maori: pereti

→ Hindi: प्लेट (pleṭ)

From Middle English plate, from Old French plate, from Medieval Latin plata, from Vulgar Latin *plat(t)us, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat, wide”). Compare Spanish plato.
(foot): Cockney rhyming slang, from "plates of meat" for "feet".

der

He was confronted by two knights in full plate.

He hewd, and lasht, and foynd, and thondred blowes,
And euery way did seeke into his life,
Ne plate, ne male could ward so mighty throwes,
But yeilded passage to his cruell knife.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 248:

Two potent Thrones, that to be less then Gods
Disdain’d, but meaner thoughts learnd in thir flight,
Mangl’d with gastly wounds through Plate and Maile.

1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 366-368:

The SAPI plate in his vest protected him from the bullet's impact.


knife

Sranan Tongo: nefi

→ Japanese: ナイフ

→ Korean: 나이프 (naipeu)

→ Portuguese: naifa

→ Samoan: naifi

From Middle English knyf, knif, from late Old English cnīf, from Old Norse knífr, from Proto-Germanic *knībaz, from *knīpaną (“to pinch”), Proto-Indo-European *gneybʰ- (compare Lithuanian gnýbti, žnýbti (“to pinch”), gnaibis (“pinching”)). Displaced native Middle English sax (“knife”) from Old English seax; and Middle English coutel, qwetyll (“knife”) from Old French coutel.
The verb knife is attested since the mid 1800s; the variant knive is attested since 1733.

you could cut the atmosphere with a knife

Jeff was bent low over the backboard, working with the knife, a steady sawing motion, his shirt soaked through with sweat.

A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing.

Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.

lem

any blade-like part designed for cutting


washer

From Middle English wasshere, wassher, equivalent to wash + -er. Cognate with Dutch wasser, German Wäscher.


spider

en-noun

spider (countable and uncountable, plural spiders)

[ˈspʌɪ̯ɾə(ɹ)]

From Middle English spiþre, spydyr, spider, spiþer, from Old English spīþra (“spider”), from Proto-West Germanic *spinþrijō, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną (“to spin”). Mostly displaced attercop (“spider, unpleasant person”), now a dialectal term.

Cut slices and lay them in cold water in the spider; boil them up two or three minutes, then pour off the water and set the spider again on the coals and brown the slices on each side.

1846, Mary Hooker Cornelius, The Young Housekeeper's Friend, page 146, recipe 28 “To fry salt pork”

In spider pan or deep skillet set over hot coals, quickly fry a few at a time in deep lard until brown.

2005, Marty Davidson, Grandma Grace's Southern Favorites, recipe for “strawberry coconuts”, Rutledge Hill Press, page 193

2008, Corona Club (San Francisco, California), Corona Club Cook Book, page 202,
Melt ½ the dry sugar in the spider, stirring with knife until all is melted.

(cooking, US, UK, chiefly historical and now dialectal) A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.

If you are deep-frying your falafel, use a spider or basket to place them gently into the hot oil, which should be preheated to a temperature of 175°C (330°F).

1996, City and Guilds of London Institute, Food preparation and cooking. Cookery units. Student guide., Stanley Thornes, unit 2ND5, element 2, page 157

Consider investing in a frying basket or a spider for small amounts of fish. A spider looks like a metal web and has a long handle and can lower and raise fish from the hot oil.

2008, Anna Kasabian, David Kasabian, The Wild Fish Cookbook, Creative Publishing International, →ISBN, page 84:

(cooking) Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle; a spider skimmer


wok

The 'wok' is an efficient, all-purpose metal cooking vessel used by every housewife in China. It has two handles and is shaped like a shallow cone.

1977, Marguerite Fawdry, Chinese Childhood, →ISBN, page 86:

(cooking) A large, round-bottomed cooking pan used in East Asian cooking.


pot

en-verb

pot (third-person singular simple present pots, present participle potting, simple past and past participle potted)

pots (present singular third-person)
potting (participle present)
potted (participle past)
potted (past)

From Middle English pot, potte, from Old English pott (“pot”) and Old French pot (“pot”) (probably from Frankish *pott); both Old English and Frankish from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”), from Proto-Indo-European *budnós (“a type of vessel”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pot (“pot”), Dutch pot (“pot”), German Low German Pott (“pot”), German Pott (“pot”), Swedish potta (“chamber pot”), Icelandic pottur (“tub, pot”), Old Armenian պոյտն (poytn, “pot, earthen pot”). Also, Old Norse pottr (“pot, tub, basin”).
The sense of ruin or deterioration was originally a general allusion to "being chopped up and tossed in a (normally fiery) pot, like a piece of meat" (i.e. to get wasted or done with (by someone)). The 'clean' slang term which was used in reference to toilet rooms and lavatories apparently derives from English chamberpots, although now usually encountered as potty in the context of children's toilet training.

cog

Ideally the best Ideally the best way of tackling the problem of toilet training, is to 'pot' your child at set intervals when he is at home, even though he may no longer be a baby, thus establishing a regular routine instead of one at odd intervals.

1975, Nancie R. Finnie, Handling the Young Cerebral Palsied Child, →ISBN, page 75:

If you leave out this “catching" stage altogether and start proper toilet training at, say, eighteen months you will only have to pot your baby about 2000 times for the same effect.

1978, Penelope Leach, Your Baby & Child from Birth to Age Five, →ISBN, page 225:

Do not make the mistake of potting your baby as early as possible, but wait until she gives the signal that she is aware that puddles are somehow to do with her.

2004, Joan Gomez, Coping with Incontinence, →ISBN, page 33:

Of course, if at any stage your child takes a violent dislike to the pot, then I would put it away for a few weeks and then try again, but if the pot is very comfortable, your attitude is calm and you don't over-pot your child (put him on the pot too often or talk about the pot too much), this shouldn't happen.

2012, Nanny Smith, Nina Grunfeld, Nanny Knows Best: Successful Potty Training, →ISBN:

(transitive, British) To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.


fork

Sranan Tongo: forku

→ Dutch: fork

→ Japanese: フォーク (fōku)

→ Kannada: ಫೋರ್ಕ್ (phōrk)

→ Korean: 포크 (pokeu)

→ Maori: paoka

→ Tamil: போர்க் (pōrk)

→ Telugu: ఫోర్క్ (phōrk)

From Middle English forke (“digging fork”), from Old English force, forca (“forked instrument used to torture”), from Proto-West Germanic *furkō (“fork”), from Latin furca (“pitchfork, forked stake; gallows, beam, stake, support post, yoke”), of uncertain origin. The Middle English word was later reinforced by Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French forque (= Old French forche whence French fourche), also from the Latin. Cognate also with North Frisian forck (“fork”), Dutch vork (“fork”), Danish fork (“fork”), German Forke (“pitchfork”). Displaced native gafol, ġeafel, ġeafle (“fork”), from Old English.
In its primary sense of “fork”, Latin furca appears to be derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerk(ʷ)-, *ǵʰerg(ʷ)- (“fork”), although the development of the -c- is difficult to explain. In other senses this derivation is unlikely. For these, perhaps it is connected to Proto-Germanic *furkaz, *firkalaz (“stake, stick, pole, post”), from Proto-Indo-European *perg- (“pole, post”). If so, this would relate the word to Old English forclas pl (“bolt”), Old Saxon ferkal (“lock, bolt, bar”), Old Norse forkr (“pole, staff, stick”), Norwegian fork (“stick, bat”), Swedish fork (“pole”).

tienhaara

figurative: point in time of making a decision

afsplitsing

computer science: splitting of a process

odnož

computer science: copying and separately developing a project

bifurcació

computer science: a separately developed project based upon a copy of an existing project

a three-prong spear somewhat resembling a pitchfork

(figuratively, decision-making) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.

(metonymically) Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.


heater

→ Japanese: ヒーター (hītā)

Emmy went on a heater in Las Vegas and came back six thousand dollars richer.

(gambling, slang) An extended winning streak.

(horse racing) A dead heat; a race in which two or more competitors reach the finish line simultaneously.


grater

I'm making coleslaw; do you know where the grater is?

As she ran on her numerous errands Jessamy found that if she did not stop to think, she knew all kinds of odd little things that the other Jessamy must have learned, such as where the nutmeg grater lived, and which was the potato peeling knife.

1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 115:

a tool with which one grates, especially foods such as cheese, to facilitate getting small particles or shreds off a solid lump


stove

→ Japanese: ストーブ (sutōbu)

From Middle Dutch stove and/or Middle Low German stove (compare Dutch stoof, German Low German Stuve, Stuuv), both from Proto-West Germanic *stubu, *stubō, from Proto-Germanic *stubō (“room, living room, heated room”), further origin uncertain. Cognate with Old English stofa (“bathroom, bathhouse”), stufbæþ (“hot-air bath”), Old High German stuba (whence German Stube), Old Norse stofa (whence Icelandic stofa (“living room”), Norwegian stove, Danish and Norwegian stue and Swedish stuga). The Germanic words are very old, and are the source of the Slavic and Romance terms. It is often speculated that the Germanic terms were borrowed from Vulgar Latin *extūfa, *extūfāre (“to heat with steam”), from Latin ex- + *tūfus (“hot vapor”), from Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “fever”).
Doublet of stufa.

cog

1815 Robertson Buchanan, Appendix to A Treatise on the Economy of Fuel, and Management of Heat, Especially as it Relates to Heating and Drying by Means of Steam. p. 309.
[I]n the countries of modern Europe, the use of stoves prevail throughout the north; while in France and Great Britain, open fires are used. In the warm countries of Italy and Spain, there are very few chimneys, and the only method usually practised of tempering the cold... is to burn charcoal in portable brasiers.

We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.


oven

From Middle English oven, from Old English ofn, from Proto-West Germanic *ofn, from Proto-Germanic *uhnaz, *uhwnaz (compare Dutch oven, Low German Aven, West Frisian ûne, German Ofen, Danish ovn, Norwegian Bokmål ovn, Norwegian Nynorsk omn, Swedish ugn, Icelandic ofn, Finnish uuni, Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌽𐍃 (auhns), probably from a Proto-Indo-European *aukʷ- (“cooking pot”), *Hukʷ-, *ukʷnos (compare Sanskrit उखा (ukhā), Albanian anë, Latin aulla, olla, Ancient Greek ἰπνός (ipnós)).
The modern pronunciation shows an occasional sound change in which o is changed to u (compare with the phonetic development of Coventry and shovel).

inh

Baby I'm hot just like an oven / I need some lovin'

1982, “Sexual Healing”, in Midnight Love, performed by Marvin Gaye:


chopstick

Apparently a compound of chop + stick, but the sense of the first element is not clear. The eating utensil sense (attested since 1637) is presumably a transfer of sense from the earlier fishing tackle sense (attested from 1615), based on physical resemblance.
The common derivation from Chinese Pidgin English chop(-chop) (“quick”), a supposed calque from Chinese 筷子 (kuàizi, “chopstick”), derived from 快 (kuài, “quick”), is chronologically impossible as Chinese Pidgin English did not come into existence until the 18th century.

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Then broughtt they us some henne cutt in small peeces and Fresh porcke Don in like Manner, giving us Choppsticks to eatt our Meat, butt wee knew not how to use them, soe imployed our Fingers. [...] Having before mentioned Chopstickes, I will Describe a ordinary Fellow, as boatmen, etts., how hee eateth / his meat, which is commonly on the ground or Decke. Hee taketh the stickes (which are aboutt a foote longe) beetweene his Fingers and with them hee taketh uppe his Meat, beeing first cut smalle, as saltporcke, Fish, etts., with which they relish their Rice (it beeing their common Foode). I say first taking upp a bitt of the Meatte, hee presently applies to his Mouth a smalle procelane with sodden Rice. Hee thrusts, Crammes and stuffes it full of the said Rice with the Chopsticks in exceedingly hasty Manner untill it will hold No more.

1637, Peter Mundy, Diary; in Richard Carnac Temple, editor, The English Factory in Japan, 1613-1623: Volume I, Cambridge: The Hakluyt Society, 1919, page 194:

All the Tonquineses keep many of these Sticks in their Houses, as well for their own use, as to entertain Strangers at meals: they are as ordinarily placed at the Table here, as Knives, Forks, and Spoons are in England: and a man that cannot dextrously handle these instruments, makes but an odd figure at their Tables. The richer sort of people, especially the Mandarins, have them tipt with Silver. In China also these things are constantly used: they are called by the English Seamen Chopsticks.

1697, William Dampier, A New Voyage Round the World, London: James Knapton, page 85:

These Sticks are called by the Chinese Quay-tse, and by some of our Voyagers Chopsticks, which they manage so dexterously that they can take up a grain of rice with them.

1761, Hau Kiou Choaan, or, The Pleasing History, London: R. and J. Dodson, page 192:

When not used, the chopsticks must be laid on the table, side by side, exactly pointing away from the individual[.]

1850, Walter Henry Medhurst, A Glance at the Interior of China, Obtained During a journey through the Silk and Green Tea Districts, London: John Snow, page 11:

It took three months’ massage twice a day for ten minutes to bring the muscles to a good condition, and the boy left the hospital able to lift weights as well as to use his chop-sticks.

1906 January, R. T. Booth, “Medical and Surgical Notes”, in China Medical Missionary Journal, volume XX, number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 75:

The main feature was large plates of meat cut up in small pieces, well-cooked and very nice, so I waded into it with chop-sticks, and had quite a good meal.

1920 January 11, The Sun, Sydney, page 5, column 4:

The guests, including Australians, ate with chopsticks and drank beer, spirits or Chinese tea from rice bowls.

1950 February 18, The Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate, NSW, page 1, column 3:

(usually in the plural) An East Asian eating utensil usually used as a pair and held in one hand to grip pieces of food or occasionally to mix liquids or scoop up small pieces of food. The utensil is a stick, usually made of wood and measuring approximately 23cm (10 inches) in length.


microwave oven

Meronym: carousel

We got to install microwave ovens, custom kitchen deliveries. We got to move these refrigerators, we got to move these color TVs.

1985, Dire Straits (lyrics and music), “Money for Nothing”, in Brothers in Arms:

An oven that uses microwave energy to heat food or other items placed within it.

微波爐 /微波炉

mainland China: wēibōlú; Taiwan: wéibōlú

微波烤箱

mainland China: wēibō kǎoxiāng; Taiwan: wéibō kǎoxiāng


microwave

Holonym: radio band

Microwaves do not follow the curvature of the earth, but travel in a straight line. They must therefore have unobstructed "line of sight" and the dish aerials have to be sited on towers or high buildings, on high ground, or a combination of all three.

1964 August, “The NER's microwave radio-telephone begins work”, in Modern Railways, page 129:

electromagnetic wave
electromagnetic wave

An electromagnetic wave with wavelength between that of infrared light and radio waves.


toaster

→ French: toasteur

→ German: Toaster

→ Hebrew: טוסטר

ja-r

トースター (tōsutā)

→ Japanese: トースター (tōsutā)

→ Korean: 토스터 (toseuteo)

→ Polish: toster

→ Russian: то́стер (tóstɛr)

From toast + -er (agent noun suffix) or -er (patient suffix).

An electrical device for toasting bread, English muffins, crumpets, etc.

(music, informal, derogatory) An electronic organ, especially a crude one that uses analog technology.

The Freedom Toaster was developed with backing from Mark Shuttleworth as a vending-machine-style dispenser of free digital products, including Ubuntu Linux.

2008, Michael Jang, Ubuntu Certified Professional Study Guide, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 9:

(computing slang, uncommon) A self-contained software package distributable over the Internet or by burning onto CDs.


olla

Borrowed from Spanish olla, from Latin olla, aulla; akin to Sanskrit उखा (ukhā, “pot”), and probably also Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌽𐍃 (auhns, “oven”).


spoon

From Middle English spoon, spoune, spone, spon (“spoon, chip of wood”), from Old English spōn (“sliver, chip of wood, shaving”), from Proto-West Germanic *spānu, from Proto-Germanic *spēnuz (“chip, flake, shaving”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peh₂- (“chip, shaving, log, length of wood”).
Cognate with Scots spun, spon (“spoon, shingle”), West Frisian spoen, Dutch spaan (“chip, flinders”), German Span (“chip, flake, shaving”), Swedish spån (“chip, flake”), Faroese spónur (“wood chip; spoon”), Ancient Greek σφήν (sphḗn, “wedge”)(though the connection to the Greek is likely impossible by modern reconstructions of PIE). Eclipsed non-native Middle English cuculer, coclear (“spoon”), from Old English cuculer, cuceler, cucler, borrowed from Latin cochlear (“spoon”).
The "metaphoric unit of personal energy" sense was coined by writer and disability advocate Christine Miserandino in 2003 (see spoon theory).

coinage

he who sups with the devil should have a long spoon

An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.


tablespoon

Their eggs were deposited on a few bits of straw, and great caution was necessary in attempting to procure them, as the slightest touch crumbled their frail tenement into dust. By means of a tablespoon, I was enabled to procure many of them.

1840, John James Audubon, The Birds of America, volume 1, page 178:

(Canada, US) A large spoon, used for eating food from a bowl.

(Australia, New Zealand, Northern UK) A spoon too large for eating, usually used for cooking or serving.

1995 May 22, Salad Recipes, New York, page 51,
Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a nonstick skillet until hot and quickly saute the goat-cheese buttons on both sides until brown.

In Australia, 1 tablespoon equals 20 ml, and there are 4 teaspoons in the Australian tablespoon.

2003, Better Homes and Gardens, Biggest Book of Bread Machine Recipes, page 416:

2006, Tempted: 150 Very Wicked Desserts, Murdoch Books, UK, copyright page,
If you are using a 15 ml (3 teaspoon) tablespoon, for most recipes the difference will not be noticeable.

2012, James Armstrong, Kellee Hollyman, General, Organic, and Biochemistry: An Applied Approach, Cengage Learning, US, page 27,
The problem gives us a number of tablespoons of cooking oil and asks us to convert this amount into milliliters. We are also told that one tablespoon equals 3 teaspoons, but this is a relationship between two units, not an actual measurement.

(cooking) A unit of volume, the value of which varies regionally; in the US: three teaspoons or one half fluid ounce or roughly 15 ml; in Britain and Canada: exactly 15 ml; in Russia 18 ml; in Australia: four teaspoons or 20 ml.


teaspoon

A unit of measure, equivalent to one-third of a tablespoon or roughly five milliliters.


ladle

From Middle English ladel, from Old English hlædel, derived from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną (“to load”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to put, lay out”), same source as Lithuanian kloti (“to spread”), equivalent to lade + -le (“agent suffix”).

inh

When the materials of glass have been kept long in fusion, the mixture casts up the superfluous salt, which the workmen afterwards take off with ladles.

1680, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chemical Principles:

A deep-bowled spoonlike utensil with a long, usually curved, handle.

luhare

deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle

(metallurgy) A container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal.

пота

The float of a mill wheel; a ladle board.

An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.

A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.


silverware

en-noun

silverware (countable and uncountable, plural silverwares)

(US, Atlantic Canada) Knives, forks and spoons.


cutlery

cutlery (countable and uncountable, plural cutleries)

From Middle English cotellerie, cutleri (“the cutler’s art or craft”), from Old French coutelerie (modern French coutellerie).

a cutlery set

This cutlery comes from Normandy, France.

A collective ensemble of eating and serving utensils such as knives, forks and spoons.

spoons; spoons and chopsticks; spoons and forks; knives and forks

muỗng đũa, muỗng nĩa, dao nĩa, thìa muỗng


cooking utensil

cooking utensil (plural cooking utensils)

Any utensil used for preparing, handling, or serving food.


dryer

From Middle English driere, dreyere (“one who dries”), equivalent to dry + -er (agent noun suffix).

Assist students to design and construct models of hot-air balloons ranging from those using shopping bags and hair dryers, to those using tissue paper and metho burners, depending on the resources available.

1996, Curriculum Corporation (Australia), From Igloos to Yurts: Years 4-7, page 23:


refrigerator

→ Cebuano: ripridyiritor

desc

→ Kashubian: refredrzerejta (United States)

റഫ്രിജറേറ്റർ

→ Malayalam: റഫ്രിജറേറ്റർ (ṟaphrijaṟēṟṟaṟ)

/ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒəˌɹeɪtə/

/ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒəˌɹeɪtɚ/

/ɹəˈfɹɪd͡ʒəˌɹeɪtɚ/

From Medieval Latin refrīgerātor (“cooler”).

Meronym: condenser

Coordinate term: freezer

A similar device used to keep non-food items cold, such as blood, photographic film, drugs, or pharmaceuticals like insulin.


fridge

→ Antillean Creole: fridj

→ Bengali: ফ্রিজ (phrij)

→ Hindi: फ़्रिज (frij), फ्रिज (phrij)

→ Malayalam: ഫ്രിഡ്ജ് (phriḍjŭ)

→ Maltese: friġġ

→ Scottish Gaelic: frids

→ Swahili: friji

Alexandra DeWitt
Chicago Review Press
Frigidaire
Kyle Rayner
Women in Refrigerators

The noun is a clipping of refrigerator, perhaps influenced by the Frigidaire brand of refrigerators, or frigerator (“(dated) refrigerator”). The spelling is likely influenced by analogy with bridge, ridge, etc. The verb is derived from the noun.
The fandom slang verb sense alludes to the phrase "women in refrigerators" coined by the American comic book writer Gail Simone. Simone was referencing a plot point in Green Lantern (volume 3, issue 54, 1994), in which the Green Lantern's girlfriend is murdered by a villain, and her body placed in a refrigerator for him to find.

coinage

Sweet broccolini with tofu, sesame, and cilantro […] First, marinate the tofu. In a bowl, whisk the soy sauce, chile sauce, and sesame oil together. Cut the tofu into strips about ⅜ inch / 1 cm thick, mix gently (so it doesn't break) with the marinade, and leave in the fridge for half an hour.

2008, Yotam Ottolenghi, Sami Tamimi, “Vegetables, Legumes, and Grains”, in Ottolenghi: The Cookbook, New York, N.Y.: Ten Speed Press, published 2013, →ISBN:


straw

en-noun

straw (countable and uncountable, plural straws)

→ Japanese: ストロー

From Middle English straw, from Old English strēaw, from Proto-West Germanic *strau, from Proto-Germanic *strawą (“that which is strewn, straw”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread around, strew”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sträi (“straw”), West Frisian strie (“straw”), Dutch stro (“straw”), German Low German Stroh (“straw”), German Stroh (“straw”), Norwegian and Swedish strå (“straw”), Icelandic strá (“straw”), Walloon strin, Albanian shtrohë (“kennel”).

der

The Bromfield Street offices were housed in a dilapidated but heavily-insured building, owned by a straw for a wealthy downtown real estate developer, surrounded by expensive new commercial developments, and in a city renowned for arson-for-profit.

1984 August 4, Larry Goldsmith, “Cops Charged With Setting GCN Fire”, in Gay Community News, page 1:


drinking straw

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-drinking straw.wav

A long tube (usually made out of plastic or paper) through which a beverage is drunk via suction.

strooitjie

a long plastic or paper tube through which a drink is drunk


kettle

→ Brunei Malay: kitil

→ Persian: کتری (ketri)

→ Bengali: কেটলি (keṭli)

→ Hindi: केतली (ketlī)

→ Gujarati: કીટલી (kīṭlī)

→ Irish: citeal

→ Maltese: kitla

→ Zulu: igedlela

From Middle English ketel, also chetel, from Old English ċietel (“kettle, cauldron”) and in Middle English possibly influenced by Old Norse ketill and both from Proto-Germanic *katilaz (“kettle, bucket, vessel”), of uncertain origin and formation. Usually regarded as a borrowing of Late Latin catīllus (“small bowl”), diminutive of Latin catinus (“deep bowl, vessel for cooking up or serving food”), however, the word may be Germanic confused with the Latin: compare Old English cete (“cooking pot”), Old High German chezzi (“a kettle, dish, bowl”), Icelandic kati, ketla (“a small boat”). Cognate with West Frisian tsjettel (“kettle”), Dutch ketel (“kettle”), German Kessel (“kettle”), Swedish kittel (“cauldron”), Swedish kittel (“kettle”), Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐍄𐌹𐌻𐍃 (katils, “kettle”), Finnish kattila, Polish kocioł (“cauldron”), Czech kotel (“boiler”), Russian котёл (kotjól, “boiler, cauldron”).
(watch): Cockney rhyming slang from 'kettle and hob' to 'fob' (fob watch).

cog

To cook pasta, you first need to put the kettle on.

There's a hot kettle of soup on the stove.

(cooking) A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.


sifter

Near-synonym: sieve

A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients.

He was employed as a sifter.

Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose, so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamellae of the beak.


zester

A kitchen implement used to remove the zest of citrus fruit.


paddle

en-noun

paddle (countable and uncountable, plural paddles)

→ Danish: paddel, padle

Partly from the verb paddle ("to splash, dabble"; see below) and partly from Middle English padell (“small spade”).
Middle English padell is from Medieval Latin padela, itself of uncertain origin: perhaps an alteration of Middle English *spaddle (see also spaddle), a diminutive of spade; or from Latin patella (“pan, plate”), the diminutive of patina, or a merger of the two. Compare Ancient Greek πηδάλιον (pēdálion, “rudder, steering oar”), derived from πηδός (pēdós, “the blade of an oar; an oar”).

cog

(video games, dated) A game controller with a round wheel used to control player movement along one axis of the video screen.


paddle

en-verb

paddle (third-person singular simple present paddles, present participle paddling, simple past and past participle paddled)

paddles (present singular third-person)
paddling (participle present)
paddled (participle past)
paddled (past)


spork

Blend of spoon + fork; originally a trademark.

An eating utensil shaped like a spoon, the bowl of which is divided into tines like those of a fork, and so has the function of both implements; some sporks have a serrated edge so they can also function as a knife.


splade

A spork that is sharp along one edge or both edges, enabling it to be used as a knife, a fork and a spoon.


vacuum cleaner

desc

वैक्युम क्लीनर

→ Hindi: वैक्युम क्लीनर (vaikyum klīnar)

→ Irish: folúsghlantóir (calque)

ویکیوم کلینر

→ Urdu: ویکیوم کلینر (vaikyūm kilīnar)

From vacuum + cleaner. By synchronic analysis, vacuum-clean (a back-formation) + -er.

A device that uses suction, and often agitation, in order to remove dirt and other debris from carpets and hard floors.


sink

a bathroom sink sink (canonical)
sinks (plural)

From Middle English synken, from Old English sincan, from Proto-West Germanic *sinkwan, from Proto-Germanic *sinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷ- (“to fall, sink”).
Compare West Frisian sinke, Low German sinken, Dutch zinken, German sinken, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål synke, Swedish sjunka. In the causative sense, it replaced Old English senċan (“make sink”) from Proto-Germanic *sankwijaną.

der

transportation network
transportation network

(graph theory) A destination vertex in a transportation network.


flipper

From flip + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Flappert (“flipper, wing”).

cog

Remember the mornings when you help me fix eggs and pancakes for breakfast. You always had to use the “flipper” to turn the pancakes and eggs.

2009, Amy J. Yowell, The Silent Cry, page 161:


whisk

From Middle English whisk, borrowed from Old Norse visk, from Proto-Germanic *wiskaz, *wiskō (“bundle of hay, wisp”), from Proto-Indo-European *weys-.
Cognates
Cognate with Danish visk, Dutch wis, German Wisch, Latin virga (“rod, switch”), viscus (“entrails”), Lithuanian vizgéti (“to tremble”), Czech věchet (“wisp of straw”), Sanskrit वेष्क (veṣka, “noose”).
Compare also Old English wiscian (“to plait”), granwisc (“awn”).
The unetymological wh- is probably expressive of the sound; compare the same development in whip and onomatopoeias such as whack and whoosh.

He used a whisk to whip up a light and airy souffle.

A kitchen utensil, now usually made from stiff wire loops fixed to a handle (and formerly of twigs), used for whipping (or a mechanical device with the same function).


ulu

en-adj

ulu (comparative more ulu, superlative most ulu)

more ulu (comparative)
most ulu (superlative)

Sembawang Park is considered to be one of the country's most ulu spots because of its comparative isolation, and it was almost empty.

2007, Neil Humphreys, Complete Notes from Singapore: The Omnibus Edition, page 157:

Just pretend you're walking in a more ulu part of Botanic Gardens.

2009, Jean Tay, Boom, Epigram Books, →ISBN, Act I, scene xii, page 51:

(colloquial, Singapore) Remote; deserted


sarcophagus

en-noun

sarcophagus (plural sarcophagi or sarcophaguses or (rare) sarcophagusses)

sarcophagi (plural)
sarcophaguses (plural)
sarcophagusses (plural rare)

/sɑːˈkɒfəɡəs/

/sɑɹˈkɑfəɡəs/

/sɑːˈkɒfəɡaɪ/

/sɑɹˈkɑfəɡaɪ/

Assos
Chernobyl New Safe Confinement
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
Egyptian Museum
Frankfurt Main Cemetery
Franz Adickes

The noun is borrowed from Latin sarcophagus (“grave; sarcophagus; flesh-eating, carnivorous”), from Ancient Greek σᾰρκοφᾰ́γος (sărkophắgos, “sarcophagus; flesh-eating, carnivorous”) (so named from λῐ́θος σᾰρκοφᾰ́γος (lĭ́thos sărkophắgos, literally “flesh-eating stone”) a type of limestone found at Assos in Troas (now Behramkale, Turkey) thought to consume the flesh of corpses, and thus used to make coffins), from σαρκός (sarkós) (the genitive form of σάρξ (sárx, “flesh; body”), from Proto-Indo-European *twerḱ- (“to carve; to cut off, trim”)) + -φάγος (-phágos, suffix meaning ‘eater (of); eating’) (from ἔφαγον (éphagon, “to devour, eat”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g- (“to allot, distribute; to divide”)).
The plural form sarcophagi is borrowed from Latin sarcophagī.
The verb is derived from the noun.

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From the collection of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt.

nb...

Containing Numerous Designs for Dwellings, from the Cottage to the Villa, Including Farm Houses, Farmeries, and Other Agricultural Buildings; Several Designs for Country Inns, Public Houses, and Parochial Schools; with the Requisite Fittings-up, Fixtures, and Furniture; and Appropriate Offices, Gardens, and Garden Scenery; Each Design Accompanied by Analytical and Critical Remarks, Illustrative of the Principles of Architectural Science and Taste of which It is Composed. 􂀿...􂁀 Illustrated by More than Two Thousand Engravings; the Designs by Upwards of Fifty Different Architects, Surveyors, Builders, Upholsterers, Cabinet-makers, Landscape-gardeners, and Others, of whom a List is Given. A New Edition, with Numerous Corrections, and with Many of the Plates Re-engraved.

at the Architectural Library, High Holborn.

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From J[ohn] C[laudius] Loudon (1839) “Of the Furniture of Villas”, in An Encyclopædia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture; […], new edition, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, and sold by John Weale, […], →OCLC, book III (Designs for Villas, with Various Degrees of Accommodation, and in Different Styles of Architecture), figure 1873, page 1045.

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Near unto Aſſos, a citie in Troas, there is found in the quarries a certaine ſtone called Sarcophagus, vvhich runneth in a direct veine, and is apt to be cloven and ſo cut out of the rocke by flakes: The reaſon of the name is this, becauſe that vvithin the ſpace of fortie daies it is knovvne for certain to conſume the bodies of the dead vvhich are beſtovved therein, skin, fleſh, and bone, all ſave the teeth.

1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XXXVI.] Of Certaine Stones which will Quickly Consume the Bodies that be Laid therein. Of Others Againe that Preserve Them a Long Time. Of the Stone Called Assius, and the Medicinable Properties thereof.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 2nd tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 587:

His Entrails are like the Sarcophagus, that devours dead Bodies in a ſmall Space, […]

a. 1681 (date written), Samuel Butler, “A Glutton”, in R[obert] Thyer, editor, The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler, […], volume II, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1759, →OCLC, page 461:

(obsolete except Ancient Greece, historical) A kind of limestone used by the Ancient Greeks for coffins, so called because it was thought to consume the flesh of corpses.


crockery

en-noun

crockery (usually uncountable, plural crockeries)

From crocker (“(obsolete) potter”) + -ery (suffix with the sense ‘a class, group, or collection of’ forming nouns). Crocker is derived from crock (“earthenware or stoneware jar or storage container”) + -er (suffix attached to nouns indicating persons whose occupations are indicated by the nouns); crock is from Middle English crok, crokke (“earthenware jar, pot, or other container; cauldron; belly, stomach”) [and other forms], from Old English crocc, crocca (“crock, pot, vessel”) [and other forms], from Proto-Germanic *krukkō, *krukkô (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *growg- (“vessel”).

suffix

Dishes, plates, and similar tableware collectively, usually made of some ceramic material, used for serving food on and eating from.

breekware

dishes, plates, and other tableware, usually made of some ceramic material used for serving food on and eating it from


tableware

en-noun

tableware (countable and uncountable, plural tablewares)

The cutlery, crockery and glassware used in setting a table for a meal.


spatula

spatula (plural spatulas or spatulae or spatulæ)

spatulas (plural)
spatulae (plural)
spatulæ (plural)

/ˈspæt͡ʃʊlə/

/ˈspæt͡ʃələ/

Borrowed from Latin spatula (“a flat piece”), the diminutive form of spatha (“broad or flat tool”), from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “a broad wood or metal blade”). Doublet of spauld; compare spatha and spathe.

der

(cooking) A kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food.


cooker

→ Welsh: cwcer

From cook + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (patient suffix) (apple; one who is cooked).

For the British market, apples are classed as early, mid-season, or late, and subdivided into eaters or cookers.

2004, Laura Mason, Food Culture in Great Britain, page 94:


bread knife

A knife, with a serrated edge, designed to cut bread; sometimes slots into a breadboard.


turner

From Middle English turner, torner, tornere, turnere, turnare, equivalent to turn + -er. Also from Middle English turnour, tornour, tournour, turnoure, from Old French tornour, tourneour, tourneur, tornëor (“one who fashions something by turning”).

A kitchen utensil used for turning food.


wooden spoon

(US, university slang, dated) The lowest appointee of the junior year; sometimes, one especially popular in his class, without reference to scholarship. Formerly, it was a custom for classmates to present to this person a wooden spoon with formal ceremonies.


salt shaker

So she cut the crusts from a pair of chicken sandwiches and set them on a tray along with a saltshaker, a white peach, and a King James bible, and I climbed the stairs to his room.

1995, Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys, Ch.1, at p.4

A small container designed to hold salt and facilitate sprinkling it on food for seasoning purposes.


washing machine

en-noun

washing machine (plural washing machines)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-washing machine.wav

A machine, usually automatic, that washes clothes, etc.


winkle-picker

[The girl] informed me that […] I had no right to wander at will upon the winkle-beds! Her brother, said she, was the watcher over this particular part of the Whitstable fishing-ground, beyond which he was the champion winkle-picker of the neighbourhood!

1908, W. Percival Westell, chapter 6, in The Story of the Sea and the Seashore, London: Robert Culley, page 199:

The most inveterate beachcomber and by far the speediest winkle picker in the village was ‘Euan, the son of Euan, the son of Euan’, the Gaelic pronunciation of whose name approximated to a long drawn-out yawn.

1961, Lillian Beckwith, “Beachcombing”, in The Sea for Breakfast, London: Arrow Books, published 1968, page 75:

the first piece of writing he had ever done [was] a starkly rhymed description of his boyhood as a winkle-picker on the Welsh coast

1967, Richard Condon, chapter 1, in The Ecstasy Business, New York: Dial, page 7:

Annie-John, the winkle picker, in men’s boots and a man’s overcoat went by with an empty bucket.

2011, Dermot Healy, chapter 46, in Long Time, No See,, London: Faber and Faber, page 424:

(UK, Ireland) A person who harvests periwinkles (a kind of sea snail) to be eaten.


cauldron

From Middle English caudroun, borrowed from Old Northern French caudron, ultimately from Late Latin caldāria (“cooking-pot”), from Latin caldus (“hot”). Spelling later Latinized by having an l inserted. See chowder, caldera.
The military sense is a semantic loan from German Kessel; compare English kettling.

Double, double, toile and trouble; / Fire burne, and Cauldron bubble.

c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 143, column 2:

[…] I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses … […]

1997, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Raincoast Books, →ISBN, page 102:

Large cauldrons are a little tricky to locate, but are well worth the search if you have a place to safely store and use one.

2004, Carl Neal, The Magick Toolbox: The Ultimate Compendium for Choosing and Using Ritual Implements and Magickal Tools, Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC, →ISBN:

A large bowl-shaped pot used for boiling over an open flame.


trivet

PIE word
 *tréyes
From Middle English trevet, from Old English trefet, borrowed from Latin tripēs, tripedis (“tripod”).

They collected wood and built back the fire and they fetched rocks to make a trivet and there they set the bucket to boil.

A stand with three short legs, especially for cooking over a fire.


soupspoon

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-soupspoon.wav

A spoon for eating soup, typically smaller than a tablespoon and larger than a dessert spoon, characterised by having a round bowl rather than the usual oval bowl of other types of spoon.


skillet

→ Missouri French: esquilette

From Old French escuëlette, diminutive of escuëlle (“a porringer”), (French écuelle), from Vulgar Latin scutella, diminutive of scutra, scuta (“tray, dish”). Compare scuttle (“basket”).

Heat some oil in a cast-iron skillet and add the onions.

Inside this paper plane
Note my words are Navy sealed
So here and I quote
Taboo and I are in the same boat
What's said from Pennywise
I guess we all float
Sky is the limit, I could die in a minute
Got my mind in a skillet
Suicide not a mission
See the vibe very timid
I'm timid and very sad
Translated my thoughts and feelings
I pivot into the pad

2018, “Black Balloons”, performed by Denzel Curry:

A pan for frying, generally large and heavy.

This is an easy skillet with potatoes and bacon.

Can you make up a quick skillet hash?

(sometimes attributive) A dish or meal cooked in such a pan.


skillet

en-verb

skillet (third-person singular simple present skillets, present participle skilleting, simple past and past participle skilleted)

skillets (present singular third-person)
skilleting (participle present)
skilleted (participle past)
skilleted (past)

Now that the season has arrived in many parts of the country for the nimrods to load their trusty Thirty-Thirties and go forth in quest of the elusive deer, it seems an appropriate time to say a word about the skilleting of venison — which can be a pretty tough and dry proposition if not properly handled.

1960, The Cattleman, volume 47, page 46:

That said, Danton in manhood is probed and skilleted, admired and reviled in a multitude of memoirs written by contemporaries who love him, loathe him or simply stand and watch as the Danton tempest roars past.

2010, David Lawday, The Giant of the French Revolution: Danton, A Life:


frying pan

→ Macanese: falânpám

From Middle English fryyng panne; equivalent to frying + pan.

And if thy oblation be a meate offering baken in the frying pan,it ſhalbe made of fine flowꝛe with oyle.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 2:7:

(cooking) A long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food.


runcible spoon

1871, coined by Edward Lear with no definition, but was applied to the following by 1926.

They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;

1871, Edward Lear, “Owl & Pussy-Cat”, in Nonsense Songs::

But the Baudelaires accepted their bowls of ceviche, as well as the strange utensils Friday handed them, which were made of wood and looked like a combination of a fork and a spoon.
"They're runcible spoons," Friday explained. "We don't have forks or knives in the colony, as they can be used as weapons."

2006, Lemony Snicket, chapter 4, in The End, page 87:

A fork-like spoon that has a cutting edge.


marmite

en-noun

marmite (countable and uncountable, plural marmites)

1824 Thomas Gill. The Technical Repository p. 180: XXXV: On the French Marmite, or Pot-au-Feu: and on preparing Bouillon with it
My little boy having been ill of a fever for forty days, I have learned from his attendant how to make the celebrated soup (bouillon) of Paris: and finding it to be superior to any that I ever before tasted, I take the liberty to send you the directions necessary to enable any one to prepare this cheap and desirable food.
Earthen-pots with covers, made to hold from one to seven pounds of meat, are found in every family. The marmite bought for me was for one-and-a-half pound only: this quantity of lean meat (bœufmaigre), was always part of the leg or shoulder: it was put into the marmite, which was then filled up with cold water, about five pints, and placed on the hearth, close to the wood-fire; and when it began to simmer or boil gently, it threw up a scum, which was carefully taken off from time to time with a spoon, for the space of threequarters of an hour, which perfectly cleansed the meat and water from every impurity.

(countable) A rounded cooking pot of various designs, commonly pot-bellied, with or without tripod, handles, lid etc; originally earthenware but currently more commonly of cast iron or other metals.


china

china (countable and uncountable, plural chinas)

From clippings of attributive use of China, q.v., the country in East Asia. In reference to porcelain and porcelain objects, via clipping of chinaware and via this sense of Persian چین (čini) in Persia and India, which influenced the pronunciation (see below). In reference to medicine, via clipping of China root. In reference to flowers, via clipping of China rose. In reference to tea, via clipping of China tea. In Cockney slang, a clipping of china plate as a rhyme of mate (“friend”). In reference to drum cymbals, a clipping of China cymbal and as a genericization of a kind of Zildjian-brand cymbal.

China, saith Manardus, makes a good colour in the face, takes away melancholy, and all infirmities proceeding from cold […].

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 5, member 1, subsection v:

(uncountable) Synonym of China root, the root of Smilax china (particularly) as a medicine.


HVAC

HVAC (usually uncountable, plural HVACs)

/ˈeɪt͡ʃˌvæk/

w:heating, ventilation, and air conditioning

Initialism of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning.

暖通空調 /暖通空调

fűtés, szellőzés/szellőztetés és légkondicionálás/klíma


waffle iron

Such a one is very apt to leave his impress upon his scholars, as the waffle-iron is impressed upon the cake that is baked in it.

1838, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Fireside Education, page 331:

I remember once of buying a waffle-iron of him, and when I tried it and found it did not make a pretty pattern on the waffles, I took it back to him to change it: but having no other pattern, he returned me the money as soon as I asked him.

1841 August 20, Miss Leslie, “Mr. Smith”, in The Ladies' Garland, volume 5, number 2, page 36:

These batter-based flat cakes gained a new form of popularity in America when Thomas Jefferson returned from his stint in France as a diplomat. In 1789 he presented his friends with a long-handled waffle iron.

2011, Ann Treistman, Who Put the Devil in Deviled Eggs?: The Fascinating Stories Behind America's Favorite Foods:

A cooking appliance, with hinged, indented metal plates, used to make waffles.

vaffeljern

a cooking appliance used to make waffles


freezer

→ Macanese: friza

(neuroscience, Parkinson's disease) A Parkinson's disease patient that experiences freezing of gait (FOG) episodes.


air conditioner

air conditioner (plural air conditioners)

A machine that is used to control temperature and humidity in an enclosed space.

kondicioner

a machine that is used to control temperature and humidity in an enclosed space

HVAC

heating, ventilation and air conditioning


dishwasher

From Middle English dysche wescheare, equivalent to dish + washer.

(Australia) A bird, the restless flycatcher (Myiagra inquieta).


blender

→ Turkish: blender

A machine with sharp rotating blades in a bowl, for mashing, crushing, or liquefying food ingredients.


mixer

→ Dutch: mixer

→ French: mixer

→ Polish: mikser

→ Romanian: mixer

desc

→ Russian: ми́ксер (míkser), ми́кшер (míkšer)

→ Turkish: mikser, mixer

To encourage those IRL meetings, Thursday hosts events in London and New York, the two cities where it is up and running; the mixer at Hair of the Dog was its eighth in this city and drew a crowd of about 450.

2022 January 27, Becky Hughes, “The Hot New Thing in Dating? Actually Going on Dates.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(US) A dance or other social event meant to foster new acquaintances, as at the beginning of a school year.

A device for combining hot and cold water before it emerges from a single spout or shower head.

(electronics) A nonlinear electrical circuit that creates new frequencies from two signals applied to it.


corkscrew

A corkscrew has a 90° turn just prior to the loop and a 90° turn just afterward.

1987 September, Tim Cole, “Killer Coasters”, in Popular Mechanics, page 56:

(amusement rides) A type of inversion used in roller coasters.


steamer

From steam + -er. The steamer duck or steamer (sense 6.2) is apparently named for its resemblance to a paddle steamer when swimming rapidly.

A device or object that works by the operation of steam.

(cooking) A cooking appliance that cooks by steaming.


draining board

A board beside a kitchen sink, designed to drain into the sink, used for letting kitchen utensils dry after they had been washed.

escorreplats

board beside a kitchen sink for draining kitchen utensils


brochette

Borrowed from French brochette, diminutive of broche (“spit”).

A small skewer or spit on which small pieces of meat, fish or vegetables are roasted or broiled.


apple-corer

A tool used to remove the apple core from an apple for use in cooking; some forms of the tool segment the apple at the same time as removing its core.


tea strainer

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-tea strainer.wav

A strainer used to filter loose tea leaves from brewed tea.


mandolin

From French mandoline, from Italian mandolino, diminutive of mandola, a large stringed instrument.

(music) A stringed instrument of the lute family, having eight strings in four courses, frequently tuned as a violin, and with either a bowl-shaped back or a flat back.

A kitchen tool for julienning vegetables.


gravy boat

A dish with a handle and spout, used to serve gravy or other sauces.


kazan

Borrowed from Russian каза́н (kazán), from a Turkic language. Cognate with Azerbaijani qazan, Kazakh қазан (qazan), Turkish kazan, Uzbek qozon.

A proper kazan also has to be well greased by constant use — it should never be washed with water, or, God forbid, actually scrubbed and scoured. The Uzbeks just wipe it carefully with an oiled cloth; and they will insist and I will second this — that the older the kazan, the better the pilaf.

1990, Anya Von Bremzen, John Welchman, Please to the Table: The Russian Cookbook:

a cauldron or cooking pot used in Central Asian cuisine


broiler

→ Finnish: broileri

→ Italian: broiler

→ Latgalian: broilers

→ Spanish: broiler

→ Swedish: broiler

From broil + -er (agent noun suffix) or, for the chickens, + -er (patient suffix).

(cooking, Canada, US) A device used to broil food; part of an oven or a small stove; known as a grill in British English.


saucer

→ Kashubian: sosera (Canada)

From Middle English saucer, from Old French saussier (and feminine saussiere; hence modern French saucier m, saucière f).

A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.


diable

From French (à la) diable, from diable (“devil”), from Old French. Doublet of devil, diablo, and diabolus.


colander

From Middle English colyndore, coloundour, colonur, variants of Middle English culdor, culdore, culatre, ultimately from Latin cōlātōrium, from Latin cōlum. Cognates include Italian colino and Spanish colador.

An electric fire came next, followed by an umbrella and then a colander. "This bowl will carry no water," he muttered. "Some loon hath pierced it with holes."

1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 67:

A bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food that has been cooking in water, such as pasta.

مِصْفَاة

a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta


tureen

From earlier terrene (thus pronunciations with /tj/, /t͡ʃ/ are spelling pronunciations), borrowed from French terrine. Doublet of terrine.

The tureens and stands are variously marked with the date letters for 1726 and 1728, with the charge and discharge marks for the fermier-générals Charles Condier (1722-1726) and Jacques Cortin (1726-1732) and with their weights.

1983, Gillian Wilson, Selections from the Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum, page 22:

But the metal tureen cannot just have been an import from the eastern Mediterranean area or from the Carpathian basin, because the style horizon of the Tiefstich pottery tureens with pendant triangles on the shoulder did not penetrate as far as that, nor do we know of any vessels there, pottery or precious metal ones, which show a similarity with these.

2009, Jan Albert Bakker, The TRB West Group: Studies in the Chronology and Geography of the Makers of Hunebeds and Tiefsttich Pottery, page 125:

The large covered soup tureen, as well as the 15 inch round plate on which it sat, was rimmed by gold leaf, and was decorated with an ornate nineteenth century English scene.

2011, Paul Winick, Cancer Dreams, page 95:

A broad, deep serving dish used for serving soup or stew.

су́пник

broad deep serving dish for soup or stew


lazy Susan

Uncertain, but probably a generic name like Jane, in reference to the device replacing a servant at table. The earliest attestation is from c. 1903 in the Boston Journal, which credits a local carpenter named John Laurie as "the resuscitator of 'Lazy Susan'". Almost certainly not named in honor of the daughters of Thomas Jefferson or Edison who were both named Susan.

The “ant-proof cooler” was a small larderlike cupboard in the kitchen, with a circular metal shelving unit, a series of round trays which revolved like a lazy Susan.

2002, Terrell Dixon, City Wilds: Essays and Stories about Urban Nature, page 279:

A rotating set of shelves used to minimize inaccessible space, usually employed in corner kitchen cabinets.


crockpot

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From Crock-Pot (1971), brand name of slow cooker by The Rival Company, from crock + pot. Coined by duplication and assonance.


slow cooker

A kitchen appliance consisting of a clay pot and its housing with self-contained electrical heating, characterized by a loose-fitting lid, relatively low temperatures, and long cooking times, and used especially in the preparation of stews.


Dutch oven

Dutch (“substitute, inferior, ersatz”) + oven. See Dutch for more information on the now obsolete sense that the term is derived from.
The cigar sense is said to originate in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Dutch Oven = Farting in bed & then lifting the blankets.

1996, Bart Plantenga, Wiggling Wishbone: Stories of Pata-Sexual Speculation, page 111:

a Dutch oven, most commonly a large pot heated by surrounding it with fuel, and placing hot coals on the lid, can also be a mouth. Not only that - it can also be the smell of a bed in which someone has just farted.

1996, Jonathan Green, Words Apart: The Language of Prejudice, page 191:

Oh, man! Dutch oven! Not the Dutch oven! Anything but the Dutch oven! Must find fresh air before it's too late! It's too late! It burns. Mama, it burns!

2009, Jon Vitti, Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, spoken by Theodore:

Hey Lincoln, what's more fun than a Canadian microwave? A Dutch oven!

2016 May 20, Chris Savino, “Space Invader”, in The Loud House, season 1, episode episode 15, spoken by Lynn Loud:

(slang) The situation where a person breaks wind under the bedcovers, sometimes pulling them over a bedmate's head as a prank.


coaster

From coast (“edge of the land where it meets an ocean, sea, gulf, bay, or large lake”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). Coast is derived from Middle English coste (“rib; side of the body, flank; side of a building; face of a solid figure; coast, shore; bay, gulf; sea; concavity, hollow; boundary, limit; land; country; district, province, region; locality, place; division of the heavens; compass direction; direction; location with reference to direction, side”) [and other forms], from Old French coste (“rib; side of an object; coast”) (modern French côte (“rib; coast; hill, slope”)), from Latin costa (“rib; side, wall”), from Proto-Indo-European *kost-.

navegador (de costas)

sailor who travels only in coastal waters

His father was skipper of a small coaster, from Bristol, and dying, left him, when quite young, to the care of his mother, by whose exertions he received a common-school education, passing his winters in school and his summers in the coasting trade, until his seventeenth year, when he left home to go upon foreign voyages.

1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., chapter XXIII, in Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC, page 245:

The single line to Exmouth Docks curves round the back of the goods yard. […] The docks can handle vessels of up to 700 tons; on the day of my visit an English coaster was discharging coal and a Dutch coaster arrived with a cargo of wood pulp from Sweden.

1960 May, R. C. Riley, “The Coastal Branches of South-East Devon: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 298:

Overhead, the black flag with the white skull-and-crossbones symbolizing defiance of radio regulations fluttered limply atop the two-hundred-foot mast mounted on the converted coaster from which they operated.

1969, John Brunner, chapter IX, in Double, Double, London: Gateway, Hachette, published 2011, →ISBN:

A merchant vessel that stays in coastal waters, especially one that travels between ports of the same country.


coaster

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Universal Studios Japan

From coast (“to glide along without adding energy; to make a minimal effort; to slide downhill (especially, to slide on a sled upon snow or ice)”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). Coast is derived from Middle English costeien (“to travel along a border or coast; to go alongside (something), skirt; to accompany, follow; to travel across, traverse; to be adjacent to, to border;”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman [Term?], Old French costoier (“to be at the side of”) [and other forms] (modern French côtoyer (“to pass alongside; (figuratively) to rub shoulders”)), from Latin costicāre, from costa (“rib; side, wall”); see further at etymology 1.
The sense 2.1 (“small stand or tray”) is from the fact that the object and the decanter or wine bottle on it “coast” or travel around a tabletop from person to person. The sense 2.2.2 (“useless compact disc or DVD”) refers to the fact that the object is only useful as a drink coaster.

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cost, costay, coste, costey, costie, coost, coostie, costen, costien

kelkka

something that coasts or is used to coast

(Australia, slang) An itinerant person who shirks work but still seeks food and lodging; a loafer, a sundowner.

It was cold but still, and Polly trotted down the smooth, snow-covered mall, humming to herself, and trying not to feel homesick. The coasters were at it with all their might, and she watched them, till her longing to join the fun grew irresistible.

1869–1870, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, “Polly’s Troubles”, in An Old-Fashioned Girl, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1870, →OCLC, page 42:

(US, winter sports) A person who uses a sled or toboggan to slide down a slope covered with ice or snow; a sledder, a tobogganist.

Something that coasts or is used to coast.


casserole

en-noun

casserole (countable and uncountable, plural casseroles)

Unadapted borrowing from French casserole.

ubor

a chicken casserole

Food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish.

запяка́нка

food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish


chopping board

A sturdy board, used for cutting and preparing food.

マナィタ

sturdy board, upon which one chops and prepares food


tucker fucker

en-noun

tucker fucker (countable and uncountable, plural tucker fuckers)

From tucker (“food”) + fucker (“one who ruins”).

I never made it as a ‘Tucker Fucker’ (a cook), but I made it as a grunt—crap food and buggered and wet, or buggered and dry, all the time.

2001, Peter Haran, Robert Kearney, Crossfire: An Australian Reconnaissance Unit in Vietnam, unnumbered page:

2003, Gary Blinco, Down a Country Lane, Zeus Publications, eBookIt, unnumbered page,
‘Let's have a cuppa tea,’ he said. ‘The tucker fuckers (cooks) always do a bit extra, the bloody instructors always knock it off.’

“[…]Yer see, young feller, cooks is graded up here. On top yer gets cooks. After ′em comes tucker fuckers. Then bait layers. An′ last of all yer gets yer willful bloody murderers.”

2010, Jim Nicolson, Long Creek, iUniverse, page 10:

(countable, Australia, slang, derogatory) A cook, especially a second-rate one.

(countable, Australia, slang) A microwave oven.

(uncountable, Australia, slang) Tomato sauce.


pizza cutter

A wheel-bladed knife used for cutting pizzas.


pepper shaker

A small container designed to hold pepper and facilitate sprinkling it on food for seasoning purposes.

պղպեղաման

a small container designed to hold pepper and facilitate sprinkling it


ice cream maker

ice cream maker (plural ice cream makers)

A machine used to make homemade ice cream.


garbage disposal

garbage disposal (plural garbage disposals)

An electric device in a kitchen drain that gets rid of food waste by shredding it to tiny bits that can be washed away.

trituradora d'escombraries

device in kitchen sink to wash away waste


fish slice

Would you pass me that fish slice, please; I'm making a mess trying to turn this omelette.

Truly the sign of an evolved person who has their shit together is that they’ve graduated beyond using a fish slice for everything (which they erroneously call a spatula).

2023 January 28, Justin Myers, “62 dating green flags that shout ‘this one’s a keeper’”, in The Guardian:

(British) A kitchen utensil used to turn foodstuffs (commonly, burgers and omelettes) in a frying pan; a spatula.


salt cellar

From salt + cellar, from 15th Century Middle English saler, from Middle French salier, from Latin salārius (“relating to salt”), from Latin sāl (“salt”). Modified based on originally unrelated English cellar.

(UK) Synonym of salt shaker (“a closed container with perforated lid for sprinkling salt”)


saucepan

→ Welsh: sosban

(countable, cooking) A deep cooking vessel with a handle and sometimes a lid; used for boiling, stewing and making sauces.


smother

smother (countable and uncountable, plural smothers)

From Middle English smother, smorther (“a suffocating vapour, dense smoke”), from Old English smorþor (“smoke”, literally “that which suffocates”), from smorian (“to suffocate, choke”) + -þor (instrumental suffix).

inh

Thus must I from the smoke into the smother […]

c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 404:

That which smothers or appears to smother, particularly


fish-knife

A table knife with spatula-shaped blade designed for eating fish.


rolling pin

A food preparation utensil consisting of a cylinder with a handle at each end, used to flatten dough.


bombilla

Borrowed from Rioplatense Spanish bombilla (“straw”, literally “little pump”).

bor

The maté is then filled with yerva, after the bombilla has been placed in position. The bombilla is literally “a little pump,” that is, a sucking tube, ending in a perforated bulb, which performs the office of the perforated diaphragm in our teapot spouts.

1856 July–October, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, volume IV, A. and C. Black, page 194:

A straw, often made of metal, ending in a filter and used for drinking maté.


griddle

From Middle English gridil, from Anglo-Norman gredil, variant of Old French greil, from Latin crāticulum, diminutive of crātis. Doublet of grill (“grid of wire”), from the same Old French and Latin sources.

Such a clatter as the little spoon made, and such a beating as the batter got, it quite foamed, I assure you; and when Daisy poured some on to the griddle, it rose like magic into a puffy flapjack that made Demi's mouth water.

1871, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, “chapter 5”, in Little Men: […], Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:

Some people when making scones do not trouble to light the oven but use the frying pan: of course if you have a griddle it is better than oven or pan, but very few people possess this useful utensil.

1894, Lance Rawson, “Australian enquiry book of household and general information”, in Cookery:

A stone or metal flat plate or surface on which food is fried or baked.


tawa

Deeti gave her daughter the job of sweeping the poppy petals into a heap while she busied herself in stoking the fire and heating a heavy iron tawa.

2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 6:


ramekin

Borrowed from French ramequin, from dialectal Dutch rammeken (“cheese dish”) (compare Dutch rameken (“toasted bread”)) or Low German ramken (“cream”), equivalent to ream + -kin. Compare mannequin/mannikin, and compare creamer.

The starters have arrived, two triangles of buttered brown bread and a neat little ramekin of crab buried under a haystack of cress, which Smith promptly relocates so that she can sprinkle it over each mouthful.

2023 July 15, Josh Noble, “‘Life is not a bowl of cherries’”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:

(cooking) A small glass or earthenware dish, often white and circular, in which food is baked and served.


food processor

To make nut roast, you have to blitz the nuts in a food processor.

A small kitchen appliance for chopping or pureeing food.


chafing dish

(cooking) Any of several devices, involving a pan and a heater, used to warm food at the table, or to keep it warm.


chipper

en-adj

chipper (comparative chipperer, superlative chipperest)

chipperer (comparative)
chipperest (superlative)

From English dialectal kipper (“nimble; frisky”), of obscure origin. Perhaps akin to Old Norse kjapt (“briskly; impetuously”), kippa ("to snatch; pull; jerk" > Middle English kippen (“to seize”)), kipra (“to wrinkle; draw tightly”), Norwegian kjapp (“fast; brisk”), Dutch kippen (“to seize; catch; grip”). More at kip.

gloss

"to snatch; pull; jerk" > Middle English <i class="Latn mention" lang="enm">kippen</i> (“to seize”)

Van Halen orders garlic strewn about Lucy's bedroom. she feels a bit chipperer the next morning, so Mina heads off to help poor Harker in Budapest.

2013, Michelle Witte, Faker's Guide to the Classics, page 66:

The idea of a merchant selling both totems of pure evil and frozen yogurt (he calls it frogurt!) is amusing in itself, as is the idea that frogurt could be cursed, but it’s really the Shopkeeper’s quicksilver shift from ominous doomsaying to chipper salesmanship that sells the sequence.

2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in AV Club:

"Sure, but she's not saying." Imrich kicked his feet up on the coffee table, dislodging a pile of research papers — hers, of course — onto the floor. She tried not to twitch. Laiken twitched a lot, and it was irritating. "Personally I think she has the magical ability to not notice she's working for an arguably evil worldwide truth suppression conspiracy. Nobody at the SCP Foundation ought to be that goddamn chipper."

2022 September 15, HarryBlank, “The Mourning After”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-06-14:

Exhibiting a lively optimism; in high spirits, cheerful.


chipper

Someone who or something which chips (e.g. wood).

(in particular, US) A machine that reduces organic matter to compost; depending on size, whole tree trunks are reduced to sawdust; a woodchipper.

štěpkovač

(Ireland, North East Scotland, slang) A fish and chip shop, or more generally a cheap fast food outlet, typically selling chips and other deep-fried foods.

(golf) A golf club for making chip shots.


cocotte

small casserole (pot) for individual portions, similar to a Dutch oven


paring knife

A thin-bladed knife intended for coring and paring (peeling) fruit such as apples as well as slicing small ingredients, especially used for precise and controlled cutting.


pepper mill

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(historical, slang) The Curta, a cylindrical hand-held mechanical calculator invented in the 1930s.


kitchenware

en-noun

kitchenware (usually uncountable, plural kitchenwares)

The new chef reorganized the space where we keep the pots, pans, and other kitchenware.

He works in the kitchenware section of the department store.

The kitchenware company, which for decades dominated the world of food storage, since 2020 had warned of doubt in its ability to stay in business.

2024 September 18, Eliza Ronalds-Hannon, “Tupperware Files for Bankruptcy Amid Declining Sales and Growing Competition”, in Time:

Instruments and utensils found in a kitchen, particularly those associated with the preparation and serving of food.

keukengerei

instruments and utensils found in a kitchen


pie pan

(cooking) A pan for holding and shaping the dough and filling of a pie, made of a heat-conducting metal, glass or other ceramic, and (more recently) silicone.


samovar

From Russian самова́р (samovár, “self-boiler”); from само́ (samó, “self”) + вари́ть (varítʹ, “boil, cook”).

bor

Come on now with the samovar ─ and make haste sorting the letter-bag.

1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 107

Eurydice pointed to the cupboard, and sat down on the low divan with folded hands, and looked at the floor.[…]Elsa made her drink a glass of vodka. Then she fetched the samovar from the kitchen, and made tea.

1932, Maurice Baring, chapter 20, in Friday's Business:

A metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea. Traditionally, the water is heated by hot coals or charcoal in a chimney-like tube which runs through the center of the urn. Today, it is more likely that the water is heated by an electric coil.


pepper pot

A soup made of tripe, vegetables and dumplings, seasoned with pepper.


tenderizer

(biochemistry) Any substance added to meat, especially papain, before cooking in order to make it more tender.

A form of mallet used to beat meat before cooking.

estovador

a form of mallet used to beat meat before cooking


waffler

One who waffles, or changes sides or positions frequently.


can opener

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Coordinate term: bottle opener

A device used to open tin cans, usually by slicing the lid off.


carving knife

(carpentry) A knife used to pare, cut, and smooth wood.

coltello da intaglio

a knife used to pare, cut and smooth wood


baking tray

(cooking) An oven-proof metal tray used to hold foods in the oven.


egg whisk

A whisk (kitchen utensil made of multiple loops of wire) used to beat eggs.


dessertspoon

(rare) An item of cutlery; a spoon, larger than a teaspoon and smaller than a tablespoon, used for eating dessert.


tian

From French, from Provençal tian, from Old Occitan, from Ancient Greek τήγανον (tḗganon), variant of τάγηνον (tágēnon, “frying pan”).

An oval cooking-pot, traditionally used in Provence.


trencher

/ˈtɹɛnt͡ʃə(ɹ)/

From Middle English trenchour, from Anglo-Norman trenchour and Old Northern French trencheor (French tranchoir), from trenchier (“to cut, to carve”). See trench (verb).

Mrs Partridge, upon this, immediately fell into a fury, and discharged the trencher on which she was eating, at the head of poor Jenny […]

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

(archaic or historical) A plate on which food is served or cut.

tallador

(archaic or historical) a plate on which food is served


tumble dryer

An electrical device that dries clothes in a rotating drum which tumbles the clothes in a flow of hot air.


roaster

From Middle English roster, roostare, equivalent to roast + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (patient suffix). Same formation as roster, although the words have very different meanings.

I found a really nice roaster in the kitchenware aisle, plus a bamboo cutting board.

(cooking) A kitchen utensil used for roasting.


rotisserie

/ɹəʊˈtɪ.sə.ɹi/

/ɹəʊˈtɪs.ɹi/

From French rôtisserie, from rôtir ‘to roast’. Doublet of rosticceria and roastery.

There will be no more misery / When the world is our rotisserie

1959, Tom Lehrer (lyrics and music), “We Will All Go Together When We Go”:

Rotisseries are essentially self-basting because most of the juices stay on the meat and distribute across it while the rotisserie is being turned.

2007, Dan Huntley, Lisa Grace Lednicer, Extreme Barbecue: Smokin' Rigs and 100 Real Good Recipes, page 279:

Rotisseries cook with dry heat, but the continual rotation of foods as they cook helps maintain their natural juices.

2010, Regina S. Baraban, Joseph F. Durocher, Successful Restaurant Design, page 150:

The Italians are famous for their little windup rotisseries that cook in wood—burning ovens.

2010, Diane Phillips, The Ultimate Rotisserie Cookbook, page v:

Rotisserie broilers cook meats and other foods by turning them slowly in front of electric or gas-powered heating elements.

2011, Wayne Gisslen, Professional Cooking, 7th edition, page 47:

A cooking device with which food is roasted on a rotating spit.

rotisserie baseball
rotisserie baseball#English

fantasy baseball
fantasy baseball#English

(US, sports) Ellipsis of rotisserie baseball. Synonym of fantasy baseball

rotisserie sports
rotisserie sports#English

(US, sports) Ellipsis of rotisserie sports. Synonym of fantasy sports


tajine

From Moroccan Arabic طَجِين (ṭajīn), from Arabic طَاجِن (ṭājin, “shallow earthen pot”), from Ancient Greek τάγηνον (tágēnon, “frying pan, saucepan”), further etymology unknown.

der

On a round table, food is served in a central platter or tagine or in shallow dishes so that it can be easily picked up with the fingers.

2005, Tess Mallos, Cooking Moroccan, Millers Point, N.S.W.: Murdoch Books, →ISBN, page 8:

Sometimes, in very densely populated urban areas in Egypt, one can still see children navigating their way through the labyrinthine maze of shops in the souk (marketplace) to bring their tagins to the bread baker.

2011, Amy Riolo, “Egypt”, in Ken Albala, editor, Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia, volumes I (Africa and the Middle East), Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 54, column 2:

A tajine is a heavy ceramic plate covered with a conical lid of the same material. The prettiest tajines, decorated in all sorts of colours and designs, come from Safi, but the best tajines for actual use are plain reddish-brown in colour, and come from Salé. The food in a tajine is arranged with the meat in the middle and the vegetables piled up around it.

2016, “Morocco Basics”, in Morocco: Essaouira and the Atlantic Coast (Rough Guides Snapshot), London: Rough Guides, →ISBN:

(cooking) An earthenware cooking pot of North African origin, consisting of a shallow, round dish without handles and a tall, conical or dome-shaped lid.


terrine

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Borrowed from French terrine (“a clay dish; that which is cooked in the dish”). Doublet of tureen.

bor

A deep type of dish or pan, typically used for casseroles and made out of pottery.


springform

(often attributive) A round baking tin with a rim that can be detached from the base, making it easy to remove the contents after baking.

Springform

a round baking tin with a rim that can be detached from the base


skimmer

A device that skims.
A sieve-like, slotted spoon.

A device for removing organic matter from an aquarium.

Any of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, such as the sea clam (Spisula solidissima) and large scallops.


stockpot

(cooking) A large pot, such as is used for making stock or for cooking large amounts of soup.


pan

→? Irish: panna

→ Japanese: パン

From Middle English panne, from Old English panne, from Proto-West Germanic *pannā, from Proto-Germanic *pannǭ, from Late Latin panna, from Latin patina (“broad, shallow dish, pan, stewpan”), from Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē, “kind of flat dish”), which is probably from Pre-Greek.
Cognate with West Frisian panne, Saterland Frisian Ponne, Dutch pan, German Low German Panne, Pann, German Pfanne, Danish pande, Swedish panna, Icelandic panna.

pan

flat vessel used for cooking — see also frying pan

A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.

The steel band transforms the people who play in it and dance to it, and fosters links between them. […] He learned to play the pan and filled in for absent members.

2009, Pnina Werbner, Black and Ethnic Leaderships, page 122:


chinaware

en-noun

chinaware (countable and uncountable, plural chinawares)

Alternative case form of Chinaware, China-ware, &c., from China + -ware.

According to the Japanese writer, the two first-named mountains and hills, besides several other places up and down Hizen, is made Japanese porcelain or chinaware out of a whitish fat clay, which is found there in great plenty.

1881, George Ashdown Audsley, Keramic Art of Japan, page 148:

So I turned my attention to setting up my new home, arranging the furniture and displaying Rita's sparkling glass and chinaware on the sideboard.

1996, Rina De'firenze, Mystery of the Mona Lisa:

This book includes a systematic examination of chinawares in over a thousand documented estates from the seaport communities of Salem, Boston, Newport, New York, and Philadelphia from 1690 to 1770.

2011, Caroline Frank, Objectifying China, Imagining America: Chinese Commodities in Early America:


oven glove

A heatproof glove designed to carry hot things to or from an oven.


coffeemaker

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Upholsterer, Letter-Carrier, Foreign-Post, Coffee-maker, of each one.

1681, Thomas De Laune, The Present State of London, page 113:

If your cook is not habitually a good coffee-maker, the coffee will most probably be sent in cold, thick, and weak—for want of some previous supervision.

1839, Eliza Leslie, The Behaviour Book, page 35:

To be sure it had to be taken without milk, but there was plenty of sugar, and when Rod passed his tin cup for a second helping, the coffee-maker's face fairly beamed with gratified pride.

1892, Kirk Munroe, Cab and Caboose: The Story of a Railroad Boy, page 47:

One of the tests by which a Greek goddess is measured is the quality of her Greek coffee. There are many ways to prepare it, and a flawless result is uncontestable proof of proper technique. Medium, sweet, plain, “heavy” and sweet, “heavy” with no sugar, with or without a film of foamy bubbles are some of the many variations of an expert coffee maker. Can she prepare good coffee? She’s a goddess!

2018, Katerina Tsemperlidou, translated by Alexandra Kalapothaki, Greek Women are Goddesses, AKAKIA Publications, →ISBN:


butter knife

A non-serrated or unilaterally serrated table knife with a dull edge and rounded point, designed for spreading butter on a piece of bread without tearing it.


cookware

cookware (usually uncountable, plural cookwares)

The assorted objects, such as pots, pans, baking sheets, etc., used for cooking


corer

(geology) A device used to take core samples for analysis


cake slice

A knife with a wide, triangular, unsharpenedblade, designed to cut and serve slices of cake.

taartschep

a knife with a wide, triangular, unsharpened blade, designed to cut and serve slices of cake


enamelware

enamelware (usually uncountable, plural enamelwares)

Cooking utensils that have a corrosion resistant layer of enamel fused to the surface


diffuser

They are in the under-$20 section, which includes a display of scented candles and diffusers.

2009 February 28, Rita Zekas, “DecoRita visits West Elm”, in Toronto Star:

A device designed to diffuse a scent efficiently.

Along the sofa every three and a half feet, fluorescent tubes glow through translucent plastic diffusers.

2008 January 24, “In a Town Known for Light, a House With Very Little”, in New York Times:

(optics) Any device that or spreads out or scatters light, making the light appear softer.

(sewage treatment) An aerating device consisting of a membrane with fine pores, through which air is blown to generate small bubbles.

(cooking) A cooking item that can be placed above a stove heating element or burner to separate the cooking utensil from the heat source.


extractor hood

(UK) An electrical kitchen device fitted over a cooker and connected to a flue designed to suck off any vapours from cooking.


spurtle

From Scots spurtle, spurtill (“potstick, spatula”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of Middle English spatyl, spatule, from Old French espatule (“spatula”). If so, then doublet of spattle and spatula.

unc

uncertain

One day they built a fire in the yard and made a black kettle of apple butter so big that when they stood over it and stirred the apple mash with spurtles, the scene put Ada in mind of the witches in Macbeth working at their brew.

1997, Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 311:

Either of two Scottish kitchen implements made of wood: a flat one for turning oatcakes, or a stick for stirring porridge.


piping bag

A cloth bag shaped like a cone with a small hole at the tapered end, used with a metal (or similar) nozzle for squeezing out decorative icing and other pastes in cooking.


steak knife

A table knife with a sharp, narrow, and often serrated blade designed for cutting tougher foods such as cooked meats.


toastie maker

Once you've tried a toastie from a toastie maker, you'll never want to eat regular sandwiches again.

(British) An electrical appliance used to toast sandwiches.


pressure cooker

en-noun

pressure cooker (plural pressure cookers)

(cooking) A sealed cooking vessel that allows cooking in greater than atmospheric pressure and at a temperature above the boiling point of water.


melon ball scooper

melon ball scooper (plural melon ball scoopers)

A kind of scooper or spoon with small hemispherical head which is useful for scooping round pieces of melon, watermelon, etc.


honey dipper

A turned kitchen tool used to transfer honey.


banneton

A type of basket used to provide structure for breads during proofing.

Gärkorb

a type of basket used to provide structure for breads during proofing


cooking pot

(cooking) any vessel (such as a saucepan), with or without a lid, used to cook food


stewpan

After letting them drain, put them into a stewpan with a quarter of a pound of butter, salt, black and red pepper to taste.

1867, Colin MacKenzie, Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts: In All the Useful and Domestic Arts, page 220:

Brown off well that flicks to your Stewpan; put in as much Flour as you think fit,...

1743, Lady (Unknown author) - The lady's companion: or, An infallible guide to the fair sex [page 333]

(archaic, cooking) A saucepan used for stewing.


platter

From Middle English plater, from Anglo-Norman plater, dissimilatory variant of platel, from Old French plate (“metal plate”) (see plate). Doublet of plateau.

A main dish and side dishes served together on one plate.


deep-fat fryer

A heated vessel for frying food by immersing in hot fat or oil, as opposed to shallow frying in a frying pan.


deep fryer

A heated vessel for frying food by immersing in hot oil, as opposed to shallow frying in a frying pan.


Scotch hands

Butter beaters; large wooden spatulas used when making butter, made out of sycamore wood, or metal, used for shaping the butter into bricks and for other miscellaneous manipulation. One side of the paddle will have ribs or be fluted.


candy thermometer

candy thermometer (plural candy thermometers)

A thermometer designed to measure the temperature of a cooking mixture of sugar and water.


butchers' knife

butchers' knife (plural butchers' knives)

He came after me with a butchers' knife.

A large, sharp knife, used by the butcher for hacking meats.


meatgrinder

The mountainous second day of the race was a real meatgrinder, with 20% of racers dropping out.

Last year’s lightning advances gave way to local stalemates and a meatgrinder battle for Kobani, where ISIL troops massing to attack the Kurds on the ground made themselves easy targets for the Americans in the air.

2015 February 11, Sydney Freedberg, 4,817 Targets: How Six Months Of Airstrikes Have Hurt ISIL (Or Not):

(informal) An activity with a high casualty or attrition rate, such as a military battle or an occupational or athletic activity.

мясару́бка

physically dangerous or wearing activity


melon baller

A small tool used to cut round sections of melons and other soft fruits.


milk pan

A small type of saucepan, with a lip for aiding pouring, used for heating milk.


cheese slicer

A kitchen instrument used for slicing cheese.


knork

A piece of cutlery in the form of a fork with a sharpened outer tine, enabling it also to be used as a knife.


mandoline

Alternative form of mandolin (“kitchen tool”)


mandoline

en-verb

mandoline (third-person singular simple present mandolines, present participle mandolining, simple past and past participle mandolined)

mandolines (present singular third-person)
mandolining (participle present)
mandolined (participle past)
mandolined (past)


stewpot

It’s a nasty stewpot of intellectually untenable premises and irresponsible speculation that frequently reads like a “Saturday Night Live” parody of the crackpot right.

2007 February 6, Michiko Kakutani, “Dispatch From Gomorrah, Savaging the Cultural Left”, in New York Times:

(art, literature) A jumble, especially one that lacks intellectual coherence.


billycan

The filling of the billycan, cutting the supports to hang it over the fire, was a public show, but many times he would do this anyway to entertain himself. He unpacked the billycan from his old rucksack and I got out the tea and sugar. He filled the billy, then used his penknife to cut sticks to hang it over the fire.

1997, Ian Player, Zulu Wilderness: Shadow and Soul, page 69:

Galloping a hundred yards, then jumping off and remounting an excited horse while holding a full billycan of water and beating everyone back over the starting line without spilling it sounded easy – until you tried. Billycans were lost, dropped, trampled underfoot.

2010, Kerry McGinnis, Wildhorse Creek, unnumbered page:

2010, Nontsomi Langa, A Xhosa Story: Mbengu-Sonyanganzu, in Harold Scheub, The Uncoiling Python: South African Storytellers and Resistance, page 162,
When they reached the river, Nqunuse's daughter's billycan began to leak.

A good billycan was one that had seen many fires, and was pitch black.

2011, Colin Graham Smith, Shadows of War, page 43:

(UK, Australia, South Africa) A lightweight pot for cooking or boiling water, used in camping.


cake tin

(cooking) The tin in which a cake is baked.


ashet

From the Scots form of French assiette. Doublet of assiette.

A large, shallow, oval dish used for serving food.


waiter's friend

en-noun

waiter's friend (plural waiter's friends or waiters' friends)

waiter's friends (plural)
waiters' friends (plural)

When I ask the smiling African Frenchman behind the till how I get my wine opened, he hands me a waiter's friend.

2006, Stephen Downes, Paris on a Plate, page 136:

A type of corkscrew having a folding design and including a small blade resembling a pocketknife


whiteware

whiteware (countable and uncountable, plural whitewares)


all-in-one

A multifunction device, especially a printer that also works as a scanner and fax machine.


fish kettle

They all looked directly at the ſcullion,—the ſcullion had juſt been ſcouring a fiſh-kettle.

1762, [Laurence Sterne], chapter IX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume V, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, page 52:

(cooking) A type of large pan, usually long with rounded corners, used to steam fish.


climate control

climate control (countable and uncountable, plural climate controls)

A device or system that controls the temperature and relative humidity in cars, buildings, etc, by way of a heating or air conditioning system.


pattypan

I heard the most uncommon and unaccountable noise that can be imagined. It was, in fact, occasioned by the clattering of tin pattypans and a Dutch oven against the sides of the panniers.

(chiefly Canada, US) A small variety of squash with a scalloped rim and creamy white flesh; a pattypan squash.


mixing bowl

(cooking) A large bowl in which ingredients are mixed for the purpose of preparing food.


range hood

(US, Australia, New Zealand) An electrical kitchen device fitted over a cooker and connected to a flue designed to suck off any vapours from cooking.


pastry bag

A flexible bag from which icing is forced through a small nozzle to make various designs of piping.


butter curler

A kitchen tool designed to produce decorative butter shapes for use in food decoration.


sufuria

Borrowed from Swahili sufuria, from Arabic صُفْر (ṣufr, “brass”).

Two large sufurias. For baking and roasting. Obtained from Zanzibar. Large enough to hold fry-pan mentioned above. / One small sufuria. For native servants. The only way to prevent the master's sufuria being used.

1891, S. Tristram Pruen, “Appendix: List of Supplies Necessary for One Person Travelling in Central Africa for One Year”, in The Arab and the African: Experiences in Eastern Equatorial Africa during a Residence of Three Years, London: Seeley and Co., Limited […], →OCLC, pages 326–327:

In a corner, he discovered a small amount of maize-flour in a bag among the utensils. He put this in a sufuria on a fire, added water and stirred it with a wooden spoon. He liked porridge in the morning.

1967, James Ngugi [i.e., Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o], chapter 1, in A Grain of Wheat (African Writers Series; 36), London: Heinemann, →OCLC; republished Nairobi, Kenya, Kampala, Uganda: East African Educational Publishers; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Ujuzi Educational Publishers, 2002 (2008 printing), →ISBN, page 3:

The prefects, including the choir boy, had a separate table. Their food was even cooked separately, in a small sufuria the way it is done at home, [...]

1972, Miriam Khamadi Were, The High School Gent (New Fiction from Africa series), Nairobi, Kenya: Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 18:

Where there is no discipline, children do not perform well in their national examinations, for discipline is the mother of learning. Without it, imparting academic knowledge is like carefully boiling milk in a dirty, greasy sufuria.

1987, Priscilla Were, “The Importance of Children”, in The Kenyan We Want: An Approach to Social Education and Ethics, Nairobi, Kenya, Kampala, Uganda: East African Educational Publishers; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Ujuzi Educational Publishers, published 1998, →ISBN, page 34:

A few days to uhuru, the local sufuria repairman, Bangarasio, was repairing my mother's sufurias.

2000, Kiraitu Murungi, In the Mud of Politics (Acacia Biographies; 1), Nairobi: Acacia Stantex Publishers, →ISBN, page 5:

Sometimes that lunch was in the form of three raw eggs and a sufuria because there were times Damiano thought it wise to cook in school during lunch hour. Come that hour and he would light a fire, break his eggs into the sufuria, fry them, eat them and then belch as if he had just demolished a six course buffet.

2002, Wahome Mutahi, Whispers & Camisassius: 14 Whispers’ Stories Published between 1991 and 1997, Nairobi: Seed Magazine, Consolata Missionaries, →OCLC, page 51:

(East Africa, cooking) A deep metal cooking pot with a flat base and no handles.


soy milk maker

A kitchen appliance that cooks soy milk from raw soy beans.


rice cooker

A kitchen appliance which is designed to cook rice, through either boiling or steaming it. It may also be used as a steam cooker for other foods.


napkin ring

The boy set up his napkin ring.

A ring for holding napkins along with cutlery.


kamado

A traditional Japanese wood- or charcoal-fired earthen vessel used as a stove or oven.


serving dish

A plate or dish or platter used to hold food to be served during a meal, but not used in cooking.


cottrel

A trammel, or hook to support a pot over a fire.


conventional oven

conventional oven (plural conventional ovens)

An oven that uses radiant heat (such as from burners or heating elements) and does not use a fan to recirculate heated air, nor any other technology such as electromagnetic induction.


kitchen sink

The noun is derived from kitchen + sink. Sense 2.1 (“miscellaneous item or miscellany”) is probably from everything but the kitchen sink.
The adjective is derived from the noun. Sense 1 (“of or pertaining to a realist style of painting characterized by scenes of dull or untidy domestic interiors of urban working-class people”) was coined by the British art critic David Sylvester (1924–2001) in a December 1954 article entitled “The Kitchen Sink”: see the quotation.
The verb is a back-formation from kitchen-sinking (noun), which is derived from the noun.

back-formation

The kitchen sink was piled high with dirty dishes.

A sink in a kitchen used for washing crockery, cutlery, utensils, food, etc., and disposing of waste.

(metonymically) In chained or tied to the kitchen sink, etc.: domestic chores or housework, especially when regarded as menial and tedious.


kitchen sink

It is evident that neither objectivity nor abstraction is the aim of the young painters of the kitchen-sink school.

1954 December, David Sylvester, “The Kitchen Sink”, in Stephen Spender, Irving Kristol, editors, Encounter, London: Encounter Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 62, column 2:

[T]here are a number of instances of [John] Berger promoting the four artists known as the Beaux Arts Quartet, or the Kitchen Sink painters—John Bratby, Jack Smith, Edward Middleditch and Derrick Greaves.

2004 autumn, Adrian Clark, “Two British Art Patrons of the 1940s and 1950s: Sir Colin Anderson and Peter Watson”, in The British Art Journal, volume V, number 2, London: Art Journals, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 74, column 1:

The home and domesticity were the main subjects of "kitchen sink" painting, a short-lived style of realism active in London between 1952 and 1957. The four artists typically associated with this genre are Jack Smith, Edward Middleditch, Derrick Greaves, and John Bratby. […] In the histories of post-war British art, it remains widely unchallenged that these four men are the only "kitchen sink" artists. Their works from the 1950s are considered as central in discourses of post-war representations of the home and labour, with critics and historians often locating "kitchen sink" painting's legacy as a precursor to British pop art's focus on everyday domestic objects.

2019 May 31, Abi Shapiro, “The Kitchen Sink Too”, in British Art Studies, number 12, London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; New Haven, Conn.: Yale Center for British Art, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-29:

(painting) Of or pertaining to a mid-20th-century realist style of painting in Britain characterized by scenes of dull or untidy domestic interiors such as kitchens in the homes of urban working-class people; also, of or pertaining to an artist or group of artists painting in this style.

Kitchen Sink -tyylinen

of or pertaining to a realist style of painting characterized by scenes of dull or untidy domestic interiors of urban working-class people; of or pertaining to an artist or group of artists painting in this style