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spatchcocks

spatchcocks is the plural of spatchcock.

spatchcocks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of spatchcock.

Meaning of spatchcock

Noun

spatchcock (plural spatchcocks)

  1. (also, attributive) Poultry which has been cut along the spine and spread out for more even cooking.
    • Spatch cock, abbreviation of a diſpatch cock, an Iriſh diſh upon any ſudden occaſion. It is a hen juſt killed from the rooſt, or yard, and immediately ſkinned, ſplit, and broiled.[1785, [Francis Grose], “Spatch cock”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, London: […] S[amuel] Hooper, […], →OCLC

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Questions about spatchcocks

What is spatchcocks the plural of?
Spatchcocks is the plural of spatchcock.

Words near spatchcocks in the dictionary

  1. Spataro
  2. Spataros
  3. spatchcock
  4. spatchcocked
  5. spatchcocking
  6. spatchcocks
  7. spatcheler
  8. spatchelers
  9. spate
  10. spated
  11. spates

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