kitchen

kitchen
kitchenless, adj.kitcheny, adj.
/kich"euhn/, n.
1. a room or place equipped for cooking.
2. culinary department; cuisine: This restaurant has a fine Italian kitchen.
3. the staff or equipment of a kitchen.
adj.
4. of, pertaining to, or designed for use in a kitchen: kitchen window; kitchen curtains.
5. employed in or assigned to a kitchen: kitchen help.
6. of or resembling a pidginized language, esp. one used for communication between employers and servants or other employees who do not speak the same language.
[bef. 1000; ME kichene, OE cycene L coquina, equiv. to coqu(ere) to cook + -ina -INE1; cf. CUISINE]

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