Spatchcock vs Splayed - What's the difference?
spatchcock | splayed |
To cut poultry along the spine and spread the halves apart, for more even cooking when grilled.
To interpolate, insert or sandwich (in or into)
*1922 , Joyce, Ulysses ,
To prepare in haste.
(splay)
To display; to spread.
* Gascoigne
To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To spay; to castrate.
To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.
To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root.
Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders.
* M. Arnold
A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
As verbs the difference between spatchcock and splayed
is that spatchcock is to cut poultry along the spine and spread the halves apart, for more even cooking when grilled while splayed is past tense of splay.As a noun spatchcock
is chicken meat when prepared by spatchcocking. (See below..spatchcock
English
Verb
(en verb)- spatchcocked chicken
- Why is the underplot of King Lear in which Edmund figures lifted out of Sidney's Arcadia and spatchcocked on to a Celtic legend older than history?
Usage notes
* Also known as Frogging the chicken.See also
* butterfly * spitchcocksplayed
English
Verb
(head)splay
English
Verb
(en verb)- our ensigns splayed
Adjective
(en adjective)- Something splay , something blunt-edged, unhandy, and infelicitous.
