nonce-wd. [f. COOK sb. + -DOM.] a. The office or position of cook. b. The domain of a cook or of cooks.
1829. Blackw. Mag., XXVI. 729. All old quartermasters, captains of tops, &c., look forward to the cookdom, as the cardinals look to the popedom.
1874. T. Jackson, Stories ab. Animals, xiv. 180. Cook is fond of the animal [sc. hedge-hog], because he has cleared her cook-dom of this insect pest.
