cooken

From cook +‎ -en.

cooken

1. (rare, nonstandard) past participle of cook
   • 1886 November 12, “Home News”, in The Larned Eagle-Optic, volume VIII, number 49, Larned, Kan., →OCLC, page 3, column 2:

     Mr. Scott says Dr. Ayers treated them very nicely; he exhibited his fish, showed them how he fed them, caught a couple of fine ones and had them cooken for their dinner, and altogether entertained them in a very hospitable and courteous manner.

   • 1930 August 2, “Being Treated Because They Ate Fish That Had Been Bitten by Mad Dog”, in The Roanoke World-News, volume 56, number 29, Roanoke, Va., →OCLC, page 3, column 8:

     After they had cooken and eaten the fish, they noticed the dog doing strange things. They came to the conclusion that he had hydrophobia.

   • 1969 March 16, Barbara W. Short, “A Taste of Mexico”, in Durham Morning Herald, 75th year, Durham, N.C., →OCLC, page 1B, column 3:

     Re-fried beans, that oh-so-Mexican-sounding dish, is really beans re-cooked by frying. “You just take regular pinto beans that have been cooken with ham fat and mash them in the frying pan with a little oil until they are about the consistency of mashed potatoes,” she [Eleanor Irigaray] explained.

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cooken (uncountable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of cooking.
   • 1887 October, Tobe Hodge, “The Twins of Weasel Branch”, in The American Magazine, volume VI, number 6, New York, N.Y.: The American Magazine Co., →OCLC, page 726, column 2:

     I was a-thinken, Sary, I’d hev to go to town an’ git a pile uv things—cups an’ sassers, an’ a broom, an’ a washbasin, an’ an ile lamp an’ some ile, an’ some cooken doens, an’ shirten, an’ a stone jug to carry water up to the clearen when I’m to work thar, an’ some hoss powders, an’ gardenen seeds, an’ a nice big stove with tin fixens, and cooken tricks; […]

   • 1891, F[rederic] A[ugustus] Mitchel, “A Willing Servant”, in Chattanooga: A Romance of the American Civil War, 3rd edition, New York, N.Y.: The American News Company, →OCLC, pages 113–114:

     “Y’ ain’t got no washen, ner nuffin fur me, hab y’?” said Souri, suddenly appearing before her. / “No! git out o’ hyar.” / “Any cooken?” / “Cooken. Can yer cook? […] I wish I had some un ter cook fur.” / “I’ll cook fur ’em.” […] “Hyar’s a gal,” said his wife, “ez hankers ter do some cooken fur me.”

   • 1954, Harriette Arnow, chapter 12, in The Dollmaker, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, pages 152 and 162:

     “Mom, they ain’t no dressers, an no looken glass, but I bet they’s twenty chairs, all alike. An jist one table fer all our cooken an eaten.” […] “Here’s some corn bread to go with them beans. […] I had a little bacon grease, an put in a dab a cooken oil.”

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• Imitating black American slave speech.