Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cook over again; hence, to vamp up or renew.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To boil or cook again; hence, to make over; to vamp up; to reconstruct.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, transitive To
boil orcook again. - verb obsolete, transitive, by extension To
make over ; torevamp orreconstruct .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Latin recoctus, past participle of recoquere to cook or boil over again. See re- and cook.
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