Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Cookery) Broiled or fried after being split lengthwise; -- said of eels.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
spitchcock .
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Examples
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"Some stewed, some spitchcocked, and the rest in a pie."
Will of the Mill George Manville Fenn 1870
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Why, them little pirani fishes will be at him in thousands, and there's 'gators enough within fifty yards to make a supper of him as if he was spitchcocked eel.
Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco George Manville Fenn 1870
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And so she did, spread the cloth, set two tea-cups, &c., and a capital supper we had, for a fine fowl was spitchcocked.
Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 Richard Henry Bonnycastle 1819
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Try them spitchcocked or stewed, They’re too oily when fried, as Barham says, with his usual good sense.
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