different between cooking vs gigot

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French gigot (“leg (of lamb)”), from gigue (“(colloquial) a long leg; haunch of some animals, especially venison”) + -ot (“diminutive suffix”). Gigue is derived from giguer (“to dance; to jump”), further etymology unknown.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?d????t/, /?i.?o?/
• Hyphenation: gi?got
• Rhymes: -???t

Noun

gigot (plural gigots)

1. (cooking) A leg of lamb or mutton.
2. (fashion) Short for gigot sleeve (“a type of sleeve shaped like a leg of mutton”).

   Synonym: leg-of-mutton sleeve

Alternative forms

• gigget, giggot (obsolete)
• jigget, jiggot, jigot (archaic)

Derived terms

• gigot sleeve

Translations

Notes

References

Further reading

• gigot (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• git-go

French

Etymology

From Old French gigue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i.?o/

Noun

gigot m (plural gigots)

1. leg (of lamb)

Further reading

• “gigot” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).