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spatchcock
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun spatchcock has 1 sense
- spatchcock(n = noun.food) Array - flesh of a chicken (or game bird) split down the back and grilled (usually immediately after being killed); Array is a kind of chicken, poulet, volaille
Derived form verb spatchcock1
Verb spatchcock has 2 senses
- spatchcock(v = verb.creation) Array - prepare for eating if or as if a spatchcock; "spatchcock a guinea hen" is one way to devise, get up, machinate, organise, organize, prepare
- spatchcock(v = verb.creation) Array - interpolate or insert (words) into a sentence or story; Array is one way to insert, slip in, sneak in, stick in
Derived form noun spatchcock1
Sample sentence:
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Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
OXFORD DICTIONARY
spatchcock, n. & v.
--n. a chicken or esp. game bird split open and grilled.
--v.tr.
1 treat (poultry) in this way.
2 colloq. insert or interpolate (a phrase, sentence, story, etc.) esp. incongruously.
--n. a chicken or esp. game bird split open and grilled.
--v.tr.
1 treat (poultry) in this way.
2 colloq. insert or interpolate (a phrase, sentence, story, etc.) esp. incongruously.
Etymology
orig. in Ir. use, expl. by Grose (1785) as f. dispatch-cock, but cf. SPITCHCOCK
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