cookfire

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noun

A fire used for cooking food.

Scrabble 17
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Meanings

nouncookfire (plural cookfires)

plural cookfires

  1. A fire used for cooking food.

    “Next evening when he was picking up buffalo chips to make a cookfire, that ram got him.

    1978 December 16, John Fischer, “Henry Quiller's Sheep”, in The New York Times
    1 more example

    "Well, we do need to keep some of it on hand, donchaknow. For fueling the cookfires and all that rot."

    2005, Harry Turtledove, Alternate Generals III, unnumbered page

Origin

From cook + fire.

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APA

cookfire. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cookfire

MLA

“cookfire.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cookfire. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cookfire,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cookfire.

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