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wok

[ wok ]

noun

  1. a large bowl-shaped pan used in cooking Chinese food.


wok

/ wɒk /

noun

  1. a large metal Chinese cooking pot having a curved base like a bowl and traditionally with a wooden handle
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of wok1

1955–60; < dialectal Chinese (Guangdong) wohk pan, equivalent to Chinese huo
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Word History and Origins

Origin of wok1

from Chinese (Cantonese)
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Example Sentences

Once the can was smuggled back to my cell, it became my wok and the stir fry was on.

Chicken is diced into square inches, marinated, and deep-fried in a wok, followed by a quick toss in brown sauce.

And third, the baskets make it a hell of a lot easier to place and remove the food than even the nicest wok skimmer.

A stir-fry pan is a better compromise--like the illegitimate but much-loved child of a saucepan and a wok.

Braising, steaming, wok stirring—these are healthy ways to cook.

Go wok fer some o dese hyer strange folks what aint keer a cent fo me, an aint know who I is?

Cose I knows yo cyant do nuffin much; yos only a lil boy, an der cyant no boy do a mans wok.

Winona, would you kindly lay away that piece of literatuah and wok the Gabriel hon?

But yer couldn't myke Muvver see vat—not if yer talked to 'er for a wok.

Ahs in de infantry, but when we get t France Ahse done asked de captain to put me on dat night-raid wok.

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