spatchcock
Apr. 1st, 2008 07:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodwordspatchcock - n., a fowl that has been split down the back for grilling. v., to prepare and roast a fowl in such manner; to insert or interpolate, especially in a forced or incongruous manner.
The last being not quite the metaphor extension I expect. From the late 18th century, possibly an alteration of spitchcock, a similar method of preparing eels, itself of obscure Elizabethan origin.
---L.
The last being not quite the metaphor extension I expect. From the late 18th century, possibly an alteration of spitchcock, a similar method of preparing eels, itself of obscure Elizabethan origin.
---L.
