a. rare. [f. COOK sb. + -ISH.] Like a cook. Hence Cookishly adv.
1611. Dekker, Roaring Girle, Wks. 1873, III. 177. I cannot abide a man thats too fond ouer me, so cookish.
1836–48. B. D. Walsh, Aristoph. Acharnians, IV. iv. How cookishly, how dinnerly He manages his duties.
