spatchcock

spatch·cock  (spchkk)

n.

A dressed and split chicken for roasting or broiling on a spit.

tr.v. spatch·cocked, spatch·cock·ing, spatch·cocks

1. To prepare (a dressed chicken) for grilling by splitting open.

2. To introduce or interpose, especially in a labored or unsuitable manner: "Some excerpts from a Renaissance mass are spatchcocked into Gluck's pallid Don Juan music" (Alan Rich).

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[Perhaps alteration of spitchcock, a way of cooking an eel.]

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spatchcock [ˈspætʃˌkɒk]

n

(Cookery) a chicken or game bird split down the back and grilled Compare spitchcock

vb (tr)

(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) to interpolate (words, a story, etc.) into a sentence, narrative, etc., esp inappropriately

[perhaps variant of spitchcock eel when prepared and cooked]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	spatchcock - flesh of a chicken (or game bird) split down the back and grilled (usually immediately after being killed) chicken, poulet, volaille - the flesh of a chicken used for food
Verb	1.	spatchcock - prepare for eating if or as if a spatchcock; "spatchcock a guinea hen" cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" machinate, devise, prepare, organise, organize, get up - arrange by systematic planning and united effort; "machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director's office"
	2.	spatchcock - interpolate or insert (words) into a sentence or story slip in, stick in, sneak in, insert - insert casually; "She slipped in a reference to her own work"