单词 | spitchcocked |
释义 | spitchcocked, ppl. a.|ˈspɪtʃkɒkt| [f. as prec.] 1. Of eels, etc.: Prepared as, made into, a spitchcock. Also transf. and fig.
a1643W. Cartwright Ordinary ii. i, No mild words shall bury My spitted, spitchcock'd..Rost'd fury. a1683Oldham Wks. (1686) 77, I..drip like any Spitch-cock'd Huguenot. 1708W. King Cookery 55 No Man lards salt Pork with Orange Peel, Or garnishes his Lamb with Spitchcockt Eel. 1799Monthly Mag. VII. 140 This spitchcock'd rattle⁓snake, And toasted toad. 1821Scott Kenilw. i, Though there were as good spitchcock'd eels on the board as ever were ta'en out of the Isis. 1840J. T. J. Hewlett P. Priggins xvi, A dinner of Spitchcock'd eels and underdone beefsteaks was ordered. ¶2. = spatchcocked ppl. a.
1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. iii, The college kitchen furnished a spitchcocked chicken, or grilled turkey's leg. |

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