different between cooning vs cooking

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ku?n??/

Noun

cooning (uncountable)

1. Racoon hunting.
   • 1876, John Burroughs, Winter Sunshine, part 1, Hurd and Houghton, page 76

     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.

   • 1875, John Burroughs, Winter Sunshine, part 2, Kessinger Publishing (2004), pages 72–73

     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

   • 1932, The Atlantic Monthly, volume information kept strictly confidential by Google Books, page 635

     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...

   • 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.”

   • 1962, Ernest Thompson Seton, Two Little Savages, Courier Dover Publications, ?ISBN, page 276

     “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

cooning

1. present participle of coon

English

Etymology

From cook +? -ing. The noun and adjective follow from the verb.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /?k?.k??/
• Rhymes: -?k??

Noun

cooking (countable and uncountable, plural cookings)

1. (uncountable) The process of preparing food by using heat.
2. (countable, rare) An instance of preparing food by using heat.
3. The result of preparing food by using heat.
   1. (uncountable) One's ability to prepare food; cookery.

      My cooking isn't very good. I don't have any idea how to prepare a good meal.

      I missed my mum's cooking while I was at university.
   2. (uncountable) The style or genre of food preparation.

      What you've produced is a perfect example of authentic Chinese cooking.

Synonyms

• (skill or style of food preparation): See culinary art

Derived terms

• cooking oil

Translations

Adjective

cooking (not comparable)

1. (informal) In progress, happening.

   The project took a few days to gain momentum, but by the end of the week, things were really cooking.

Verb

cooking

1. present participle of cook