spatchcocks

spatch·cock

(spăch′kŏk)

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)

(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]

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spatch•cock

(ˈspætʃˌkɒk)

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.

spatchcock

Past participle: spatchcocked
Gerund: spatchcocking

Imperative
spatchcock
spatchcock

Present
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