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spatchcock

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Noun, Verb (transitive)
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spatch=cock

CIDE DICTIONARY

spatchcockn. 

OXFORD DICTIONARY

spatchcock, 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

For further exploring for "spatchcock" in Webster Dictionary Online


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