different between kitchen vs scullery

English

Etymology

From Middle English kychyn, kytchen, kichene, küchen, from Old English cy?en, cy?ene, from Proto-West Germanic *kukin?, a borrowing from Vulgar Latin *coc?na, from Latin coqu?na (“kitchen; cuisine”), from coqu? (“to cook”), from Proto-Indo-European *pek?- (“to cook, become ripe”).

In other languages, the cognate term often refers both to the room and the type of cooking. In English, the distinction is generally made via the etymological twins kitchen (“room”) (of Germanic origin) and cuisine (“type of cooking”) (from French).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?t???n/, /?k?t???n/
• Rhymes: -?t??n, -?t??n

Noun

kitchen (plural kitchens)

1. A room or area for preparing food.
2. (by extension) Cuisine; style of cooking.
3. (chiefly African-American Vernacular) The nape of a person's hairline, often referring to its uncombed or "nappy" look.
4. (music) The percussion section of an orchestra.
5. (dated) A utensil for roasting meat.
   • 1897, The Warm Springs Receipt-book (page 70)

     There are two modes of roasting: One is to use a tin kitchen before an open fire, and the other, and more common way, is to use a hot oven.

6. (attributive) A domesticated or uneducated form of a language.
   • 1885, H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines,

     Sir Henry and Umbopo sat conversing in a mixture of broken English and kitchen Zulu, in low voices, but earnestly enough.

7. (slang) A public gaming room in a casino.
   • 1925, William Rutherford Hayes Trowbridge, In the sun with a passport (page 31)

     Having done what was required to gain admittance to the "kitchen," as the public rooms are termed, as well as to the more exclusive "Salle Privée" […]
8. (obsolete) Anything eaten as a relish with bread, potatoes, etc.

Usage notes

• (area for preparing food): A kitchen fruit, kitchen apple, or the like, or one good for the kitchen, is one suitable for use in prepared foods.

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Verb

kitchen (third-person singular simple present kitchens, present participle kitchening, simple past and past participle kitchened)

1. To do kitchen work; to prepare food.
2. To embellish a basic food; to season, add condiments, etc.
3. (by extension) To embellish; to dress up.

Anagrams

• Chetnik, chetnik, ethnick, thicken

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman squillerie, from Old French escuelerie (“office of the servant in charge of plates”), from escuele (“bowl, dish”), from Latin scutella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sk?l??i/

Noun

scullery (plural sculleries)

1. (historical) A small room, next to a kitchen, where washing up and other domestic chores are done.

   • With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring.

Related terms

• scullery maid

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