spatchcock
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spatch·cock
(spăch′kŏk)n.
A dressed and split fowl for roasting or grilling.
tr.v. spatch·cocked, spatch·cock·ing, spatch·cocks
1. To prepare (a dressed fowl) for roasting or 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).
[Perhaps short for dispatch cock, a cock or chicken that has been killed and dressed in summary manner (from dispatch + cock), or perhaps alteration of spitchcock, an eel cut into short pieces, dressed with bread crumbs, and broiled (of unknown origin).]
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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
[C18: perhaps variant of spitchcock eel when prepared and cooked]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
spatch•cock
(ˈspætʃˌkɒk)n.
1. a fowl that has been dressed and split open for grilling.
v.t. 2. to prepare and roast (a fowl) in this manner.
3. to insert or interpolate, esp. in a forced or incongruous manner.
[1775–85; appar. alter. of spitchcock]
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spatchcock
Past participle: spatchcocked
Gerund: spatchcocking
| Imperative |
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| spatchcock |
| spatchcock |
| Present |
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| I spatchcock |
| you spatchcock |
| he/she/it spatchcocks |
| we spatchcock |
| you spatchcock |
| they spatchcock |
| Preterite |
|---|
| I spatchcocked |
| you spatchcocked |
| he/she/it spatchcocked |
| we spatchcocked |
| you spatchcocked |
| they spatchcocked |
| Present Continuous |
|---|
| I am spatchcocking |
| you are spatchcocking |
| he/she/it is spatchcocking |
| we are spatchcocking |
| you are spatchcocking |
| they are spatchcocking |
| Present Perfect |
|---|
| I have spatchcocked |
| you have spatchcocked |
| he/she/it has spatchcocked |
| we have spatchcocked |
| you have spatchcocked |
| they have spatchcocked |
| Past Continuous |
|---|
| I was spatchcocking |
| you were spatchcocking |
| he/she/it was spatchcocking |
| we were spatchcocking |
| you were spatchcocking |
| they were spatchcocking |
| Past Perfect |
|---|
| I had spatchcocked |
| you had spatchcocked |
| he/she/it had spatchcocked |
| we had spatchcocked |
| you had spatchcocked |
| they had spatchcocked |
| Future |
|---|
| I will spatchcock |
| you will spatchcock |
| he/she/it will spatchcock |
| we will spatchcock |
| you will spatchcock |
| they will spatchcock |
| Future Perfect |
|---|
| I will have spatchcocked |
| you will have spatchcocked |
| he/she/it will have spatchcocked |
| we will have spatchcocked |
| you will have spatchcocked |
| they will have spatchcocked |
| Future Continuous |
|---|
| I will be spatchcocking |
| you will be spatchcocking |
| he/she/it will be spatchcocking |
| we will be spatchcocking |
| you will be spatchcocking |
| they will be spatchcocking |
| Present Perfect Continuous |
|---|
| I have been spatchcocking |
| you have been spatchcocking |
| he/she/it has been spatchcocking |
| we have been spatchcocking |
| you have been spatchcocking |
| they have been spatchcocking |
| Future Perfect Continuous |
|---|
| I will have been spatchcocking |
| you will have been spatchcocking |
| he/she/it will have been spatchcocking |
| we will have been spatchcocking |
| you will have been spatchcocking |
| they will have been spatchcocking |
| Past Perfect Continuous |
|---|
| I had been spatchcocking |
| you had been spatchcocking |
| he/she/it had been spatchcocking |
| we had been spatchcocking |
| you had been spatchcocking |
| they had been spatchcocking |
| Conditional |
|---|
| I would spatchcock |
| you would spatchcock |
| he/she/it would spatchcock |
| we would spatchcock |
| you would spatchcock |
| they would spatchcock |
| Past Conditional |
|---|
| I would have spatchcocked |
| you would have spatchcocked |
| he/she/it would have spatchcocked |
| we would have spatchcocked |
| you would have spatchcocked |
| they would have spatchcocked |
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
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Noun 1. spatchcock - flesh of a chicken (or game bird) split down the back and grilled (usually immediately after being killed)
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"
2. spatchcock - interpolate or insert (words) into a sentence or story
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