spatchcock
English
Etymology
Related to spitchcock (“to split and broil an eel”), of uncertain origin. Possibly a corruption of dispatch + cock.
Noun
spatchcock (plural spatchcocks)
- Chicken meat when prepared by spatchcocking. (See below.)
- A rushed effort.
Verb
spatchcock (third-person singular simple present spatchcocks, present participle spatchcocking, simple past and past participle spatchcocked)
- To cut poultry along the spine and spread the halves apart, for more even cooking when grilled.
- spatchcocked chicken
- To interpolate, insert or sandwich (in or into)
- 1922, Joyce, Ulysses, chapter 9
- Why is the underplot of King Lear in which Edmund figures lifted out of Sidney's Arcadia and spatchcocked on to a Celtic legend older than history?
- 1922, Joyce, Ulysses, chapter 9
- To prepare in haste.
Synonyms
- (prepare chicken): frog
See also
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