See Also: kitchen(dictionary)
Zig Zag Kitchen(tourism)
Kitchen(medicine)
kitchen(dictionary)
Kim's Kitchen(tourism)
Hema's Kitchen(tourism)
Improv Kitchen(tourism)
Johnny's Kitchen and Tap(tourism)
My Green Kitchen(tourism)
Pacific Rim Kitchen(tourism)

kitchen (iou)



kitchen noun, adjective, & verb.

A. noun.
I.
The room or part of a house in which food is prepared and cooked; a place fitted with apparatus for cooking. OE.
D. Prater A tiny kitchen where he could prepare his porridge.
Cookery; a culinary establishment; the cuisine of a particular country etc. L17.
G. Berkeley On breaking up of the Duke's kitchen, one of his under-cooks may be got.
A part of a casino at Monte Carlo where gamblers place smaller bets than in the salles privees. M20.
The percussion section of an orchestra or band. slang. M20.
A set of matching units for use in storing and preparing food, often with cooker, refrigerator, etc., esp. as sold together. M20.
Which? A fitted kitchen built from manufactured units.
II.
Food, as meat, cheese, butter, etc., eaten with bread or other plain fare as a relish; drink taken with food. Chiefly Scot. & N. Ir. LME.
Phrases: hell's kitchen an area or place regarded as very disreputable or unpleasant; spec. a district of New York City once regarded as the haunt of criminals. Pullman kitchen: see PULLMAN 5. thieves' kitchen a place inhabited or used by thieves or other criminals.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Of or pertaining to a kitchen; used or found in a kitchen. LME.
Comb. & special collocations: kitchen cabinet (orig. US) (a) a group of unofficial advisers (orig. of the president of the US) popularly believed to have greater influence than elected or appropriate officials; a private or unofficial group of advisers thought to be unduly influential; (b) a cabinet for domestic and culinary utensils etc. in a kitchen; kitchen-diner a room serving both as a kitchen and as a dining-room; kitchen Dutch (now rare) Archaeology a prehistoric refuse-heap associated with a site of human habitation, consisting chiefly of shells and animal bones, but also sometimes containing stone implements and other relics; kitchen paper absorbent paper used for drying and cleaning purposes in a kitchen etc., often sold as a roll; kitchen-parlour a room serving both as kitchen and parlour; kitchen-physic joc. nourishment for an invalid (as a form of treatment); kitchen-plot = kitchen garden; kitchen police in the US army, enlisted men detailed to help the cook, wash dishes, etc.; the work of such men; kitchen shower N. Amer. = kitchen tea below; kitchen sink a sink in a kitchen, in which dirty dishes, vegetables, etc., are washed (freq. used as a symbol of women's enslavement to the kitchen or of the drab and mundane); everything but the kitchen sink, everything possible or imaginable; kitchen-sink adjective designating or pertaining to art, esp. drama, dealing with domestic reality, esp. in its drab or sordid aspects; kitchen stove a stove in a kitchen; everything but the kitchen stove = everything but the kitchen sink above; kitchen-stuff refuse or waste from a kitchen, esp. dripping; kitchen tea Austral., NZ, & S. Afr. a party to which guests bring gifts of kitchenware for a bride-to-be (cf. kitchen evening above); kitchenware utensils for use in a kitchen; kitchen-wench arch. a girl employed in a kitchen, a kitchen-maid.
C. verb trans.
Entertain in the kitchen, supply with food. rare (Shakes.). Only in L16.
Serve as relish for; make palatable, season. Also, use sparingly as relish with food; make (food) go far. Scot. E18.
kitchenable adjective suitable for cooking and eating E20.
kitcheny adjective of, pertaining to, or suggestive of a kitchen L19.