cookshop

American  

[kook-shop] / ˈkʊkˌʃɒp /

noun

1. a place where prepared food is sold or served; restaurant.

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Etymology

Origin of cookshop

First recorded in 1545–55; cook ¹ + shop

Example Sentences

When a hungry man sees food, or when, let us say, a hungry boy looks into a cookshop, he becomes aware of a watering of the mouth and a gnawing sensation at the stomach.

From Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use by Alpheus, A.

On the right of the door was a large room, occupied as a cookshop.

From L'Assommoir by Zola, Émile

I put him back to where the constables came to search for me at the cookshop.

From The Queen Pedauque by Stritzko, Jos. A. V.

That some time you'll come for the guv'ner to investigate a crime wot's been committed in a cookshop, sir—and then, wot ho!

From Cleek, the Master Detective by Hanshew, Thomas W.

Moreover Orsino Saracinesca and John Nepomucene Spicca would not be in daily danger of poisoning in this vile cookshop.

From Don Orsino by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)