Spatchcock (Verb)
Meaning 1
Prepare for eating if or as if a spatchcock; "spatchcock a guinea hen".
Classification
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing.
Examples
- The chicken was spatchcocked to cook evenly and quickly on the grill.
- To prepare the small bird for roasting, spatchcock it by cutting out the backbone and flattening the breast.
- She carefully spatchcocked the game hen before grilling it with her special herbs and spices.
- Spatchcock the pheasant and season it with a mixture of garlic, salt, and pepper for better flavor.
- The chef decided to spatchcock the quail to make it crispier and to achieve better texture when grilling.
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Meaning 2
Interpolate or insert (words) into a sentence or story.
Classification
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing.
Examples
- The editor decided to spatchcock a few additional scenes into the movie script to make the plot more coherent.
- Some critics accused him of spatchcocking entire paragraphs from other people's work into his own essay.
- To make the jokes appear funnier, the comedian loved to spatchcock funny one-liners into everyday conversations.
- She had a tendency to spatchcock new vocabulary words into her stories to confuse the readers.
- He often caught himself spatchcocking apologies into discussions where they didn't quite fit naturally.