Cooning vs Cooking - What's the difference?
cooning | cooking |
Racoon hunting.
* 1876 , John Burroughs, Winter Sunshine , part 1, Hurd and Houghton, page 76
* 1875 , John Burroughs, Winter Sunshine , part 2, Kessinger Publishing (2004), pages 72–73
* 1932 , The Atlantic Monthly , volume information kept strictly confidential by Google Books, page 635
* 1950 , William A. Owens (compiler), Texas Folk Songs , page 245
* 1962 , Ernest Thompson Seton, Two Little Savages , Courier Dover Publications, ISBN 0486209857, page 276
(informal) In progress, happening.
The process of preparing food by using heat.
(by extension) The process of preparing food.
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, chapter=6 (by extension) The result of that process, a meal.
* I missed my mum's cooking while I was at university.
The style or genre of food preparation; cookery.
As nouns the difference between cooning and cooking
is that cooning is racoon hunting while cooking is the process of preparing food by using heat.As verbs the difference between cooning and cooking
is that cooning is while cooking is .As an adjective cooking is
(informal) in progress, happening.cooning
English
Noun
(head)- At this time, cooning in the remote interior is a famous pastime. As this animal is entirely nocturnal in its habits it is hunted only at night.
- But if he [the dog''] strikes a trail, you presently hear''... loud and repeated barking as he reaches the foot of the tree in which the coon has taken refuge. Then follows a pellmell rush of the cooning party up the hill, into the woods, through the brush and the darkness
- These are the kind of men who have served their time and taken all the six degrees necessary to a scout's full education, “foxing, snaking, moling, cooning , possuming, and, if need be, wolfing ;” who riding at a canter through the woods, will stop their horse...
- I met Colonel Davy a-going out a-cooning ,
- Says I, “Davy Crockett, how do you hunt without a gun?”
- “Oh,” says he, “Pompey Smash, if you’ll follow along with Davy,
- I’ll soon show you how for to grin a coon crazy.”
- “Aren’t there any Coons ’round here, Mr. Clark?”
- “Oh, I reckon so. Y-e-s! Down a piece in the hardwood bush near Widdy Biddy Baggs’s place there’s lots o’ likely Cooning ground.”
Verb
(head)cooking
English
Adjective
(-)- The project took a few days to gain momentum, but by the end of the week, things were really cooking .
Noun
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