Cooked

ppl. a. [f. COOK v.¹ + -ED¹.]

  1.  Of articles of food: Prepared by heat for eating. Often with qualification as half-cooked, ill-cooked, well-cooked, etc.

1837.  M. Donovan, Dom. Econ., II. 115. Whether the flesh is raw or cooked.

1855.  J. F. W. Johnston, Chem. Common Life, vi. (1879), 108. A well-cooked piece of meat.

1883.  Fisheries Exhib. Catal., 371. Cooked and tinned Salmon.

  2.  fig. Altered to suit a purpose, ‘doctored.’

1861.  Sat. Rev., 14 Sept., 266. Cooked statistics and unsound theories.

1861.  Illustr. Lond. News, 30 March, 285/3. A placard headed ‘Cooked statement of income and expenditure.’