SPATCHCOCK


Meaning of SPATCHCOCK in English

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.

Etymology: orig. in Ir. use, expl. by Grose (1785) as f. dispatch-cock, but cf. SPITCHCOCK

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.