Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to kitchen
Participle: kitchened
Gerund: kitchening
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | kitchen |
| you | kitchen |
| he;she;it | kitchens |
| we | kitchen |
| you | kitchen |
| they | kitchen |
Perfect
| I | have kitchened |
| you | have kitchened |
| he;she;it | has kitchened |
| we | have kitchened |
| you | have kitchened |
| they | have kitchened |
Past
| I | kitchened |
| you | kitchened |
| he;she;it | kitchened |
| we | kitchened |
| you | kitchened |
| they | kitchened |
Pluperfect
| I | had kitchened |
| you | had kitchened |
| he;she;it | had kitchened |
| we | had kitchened |
| you | had kitchened |
| they | had kitchened |
Future
| I | will kitchen |
| you | will kitchen |
| he;she;it | will kitchen |
| we | will kitchen |
| you | will kitchen |
| they | will kitchen |
Future Perfect
| I | will have kitchened |
| you | will have kitchened |
| he;she;it | will have kitchened |
| we | will have kitchened |
| you | will have kitchened |
| they | will have kitchened |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | kitchen |
| you | kitchen |
| he;she;it | kitchen |
| we | kitchen |
| you | kitchen |
| they | kitchen |
Perfect
| I | have kitchened |
| you | have kitchened |
| he;she;it | have kitchened |
| we | have kitchened |
| you | have kitchened |
| they | have kitchened |
Imperfect
| I | kitchened |
| you | kitchened |
| he;she;it | kitchened |
| we | kitchened |
| you | kitchened |
| they | kitchened |
Pluperfect
| I | had kitchened |
| you | had kitchened |
| he;she;it | had kitchened |
| we | had kitchened |
| you | had kitchened |
| they | had kitchened |
Conditional
Present
| I | would kitchen |
| you | would kitchen |
| he;she;it | would kitchen |
| we | would kitchen |
| you | would kitchen |
| they | would kitchen |
Perfect
| I | would have kitchened |
| you | would have kitchened |
| he;she;it | would have kitchened |
| we | would have kitchened |
| you | would have kitchened |
| they | would have kitchened |
Imperative
| you | kitchen |
| we | Let's kitchen |
| you | kitchen |
Verbs conjugated like 'kitchen'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'kitchen'
hitchel,
kithe,
kitten,
lithen,
richen,
bitch,
bitumen,
blithen,
butcher,
ditch,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E. cycene, from W.Gmc. *kocina (cf. M.Du. cökene, O.H.G. chuhhina, Ger. Küche, Dan. kjøkken), probably borrowed from V.L. *cocina (cf. Fr. cuisine, Sp. cocina), variant of L. coquina "kitchen," from fem. of coquinus "of cooks," from coquus "cook," from coquere "to cook." Kitchen cabinet "informal but powerful set of advisors" is Amer.Eng. slang, 1832, originally in ref. to administration of President Andrew Jackson. Kitchen midden (1863) in archaeology translates Dan. kjøkken mødding. The New York City neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen is first attested 1894. Kitchenette is from 1910, Amer.Eng. Phrase everything but the kitchen sink is from World War II armed forces slang, in ref. to intense bombardment.
2. From Middle English kichene, kichen, from Old English cyċen, cyċene, from Proto-West Germanic *kukinā, a borrowing from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna (“kitchen; cuisine”), from coquō (“to cook”), from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”).
3. 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”) (Latin via Germanic) and cuisine (“type of cooking”) (Latin via French).
Sample Sentences
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A dress scarcely suited to woodland kitchening was defended by an apron borrowed from the maid. [1842, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, Forest Life - Volume 2, page 52:]
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"...May I ? " added the speaker, and forthwith took his answer from his master's smile ; "may I respectfully see what the old one has kitchened for you when I was not there ? " [1899, Egerton Castle -, The Light of Scarthey: A Romance, page 10:]
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Instinctively they moved toward community canning, community baking, community kitchening on the grand scale to release energy for other war exigencies. [1920, Suffragist - Volumes 8-9, page 239:]
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From somewhere through the series of connecting rooms she smelled food, the stabbing odor of onions cooking, a distantly familiar spice, heard the clatter of women kitchening. [1979, Barbara Ninde Byfield, A parcel of their fortunes, →ISBN, page 21:]
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I have found it so, for whenever I saw the meal and potatoes running low, I spared them, and kitchened them all I could, and never was run out of them till the new came in. [1817, Mrs. Edgworth, Tales of Real Life, Or, Scenes in Ireland:]
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I "kitchened" my loaf, as they say in Scotland, with a pennyworth of butter, and occasionally with lettuce or a few radishes in their season ; and the beverage with which I regaled myself, after my meals, was a glass of water from the nearest pump. [1851, John Mackay Wilson, Tales of the Borders and of Scotland:]
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The green hill slopes are dotted over with sheep and lambs nibbling away at their morning meal, kitchened with blabs of sparkling dew, and higher up the mountain side we hear the " cootie moorcock's coothy craw." [1893, Malcolm Ferguson, Fishing Incidents and Adventures:]
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This was seasoned with salt and sometimes kitchened with butter. [1907, Thomas Finlayson Henderson, Francis Watt, Scotland of to-day, page 358:]
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His Maker has not so endowed him as to lay him under the necessity of kitchening, so to speak, a slender share of talent, and, by rigid economy, make it go as far as possible. [1830, The Imperial Magazine:]
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But as in his novels and other work there is a 'kitchening' of the material, a tentativeness. [2003, Patrick Kavanagh, Antoinette Quinn, A Poet's Country: Selected Prose, →ISBN, page 211:]