pressure-cook

1. 1.

   cook in a pressure cooker

   Broadercook

   cooking

Questions about pressure-cook

What does pressure-cook mean?

pressure-cook means "cook in a pressure cooker".

How many syllables are in pressure-cook?

pressure-cook has 4 syllables and divides as pres-su-re--cook under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is pressure-cook a common word?

pressure-cook is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.