Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A dressed and split chicken for roasting or broiling on a spit.
- transitive verb To prepare (a dressed chicken) for grilling by splitting open.
- transitive verb To introduce or interpose, especially in a labored or unsuitable manner.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To kill and serve (a fowl) hastily, as a spatch-cock.
- To prepare (something) in haste for an emergency; in the extract, to insert hastily into a document.
- Milit., to punish by stretching upon the ground with arms and legs extended and fastened down.
- noun A fowl killed and immediately broiled, as for some sudden occasion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
spitchcock .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Chicken
meat when prepared by spatchcocking. (See below.) - noun A rushed effort.
- verb To
cut poultry along thespine andspread the halves apart, for more even cooking when grilled. - verb To
interpolate ,insert orsandwich (in or into) - verb To prepare in haste.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb prepare for eating if or as if a spatchcock
- noun flesh of a chicken (or game bird) split down the back and grilled (usually immediately after being killed)
- verb interpolate or insert (words) into a sentence or story
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I've used chicken Maryland portions but you could easier use this for a whole chicken - it would be best if you "spatchcock" the chicken first, that just means you cut it straight down the backbone and flatten it out.
Rainbow Chard and Ricotta Stuffed Chicken Haalo 2007
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I've used chicken Maryland portions but you could easier use this for a whole chicken - it would be best if you "spatchcock" the chicken first, that just means you cut it straight down the backbone and flatten it out.
Archive 2007-07-01 Haalo 2007
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Try lemon-brandy spatchcock chicken and grilled pineapple and these assorted braai recipes as well as other traditional foods.
For soccer's World Cup, add some international flair to your grilling menu 2010
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Try lemon-brandy spatchcock chicken and grilled pineapple and these assorted braai recipes as well as other traditional foods.
For soccer's World Cup, add some international flair to your grilling menu 2010
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Maybe he was eating spatchcock social worker in a blood-and-port jus.
You've never had it so good, says Lord Young. By accident. Before promptly stepping down Charlie Brooker 2010
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"We would have had to spatchcock together whatever coalition we could, but it was profoundly difficult," he said.
Lib Dems should be able to veto coalition policies, says Simon Hughes 2010
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Rather than roasting them on a spit, the Spanish pigs are splayed, spatchcock style, and baked in clay dishes.
Big-Time Barbecue Paul Ames 2009
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I make my own when ever I spatchcock a chicken or turkey but I do need to supplement the homemade stuff.
Kalyn's Kitchen Picks: Better Than Bouillon Organic Low-Sodium Chicken Base Kalyn Denny 2009
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Then we saw Alton Brown spatchcock a chicken on Good Eats & Matt decided to try that.
Spatchcocking kat 2008
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Then we saw Alton Brown spatchcock a chicken on Good Eats & Matt decided to try that.
Archive 2008-05-01 kat 2008
yarb commented on the word spatchcock
The autumn sunshine, which had never been more than a sarcasm on the part of a thoroughly unpleasant day, had failed altogether, and Edinburgh had become a series of corridors through which there rushed a trampling wind. It set the dead leaves rising from the pavement in an exasperated, seditious way, and let them ride dispersedly through the eddying air far above the heads of the clambering figures that, up and down the side-street, stood arrested and, it seemed, flattened, as if they had been spatchcocked by the advancing wind and found great difficulty in folding themselves up again.
- Rebecca West, The Judge
July 29, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word spatchcock
I love this word when employed as a verb.
February 23, 2010