SPATCHCOCK


Meaning of SPATCHCOCK in English

/spach"kok'/ , 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: Additional information has been spatchcocked into the occasional random footnote.

[ 1775-85; appar. alter. of SPITCHCOCK; popular interpretation as shortening of dispatch cock is prob. specious ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .