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spatchcock

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Is spatchcock a Scrabble word?

Yes, spatchcock is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 25 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends No

What is the meaning of spatchcock?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (cooking, also attributively) Poultry which has been cut along the spine and spread out for more even cooking.Examples: "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."; "He then slew it [a chicken], dipped the corpse in boiling water to loosen the feathers, which he stripped off in masses, cut through its breast longitudinally, and with the aid of an iron plate, placed over a charcoal fire, proceeded to make a spatchcock, or as it is more popularly termed, a "sudden death.""alsoattributive

verb (English)

1. (cooking) To cut (poultry) along the spine and spread the halves apart for more even cooking.Examples: "For the party, he spatchcocked and grilled some chickens."; "Katniss [Everdeen] emerges alone, smeared in blood and muck and gnawing on the charred remains of a spatchcocked squirrel."Synonyms: frogtransitive

2. (figuratively) Often followed by in or into: to interpolate or insert (something into another thing) awkwardly; to sandwich (something within another thing).Examples: "I, therefore, spatchcocked into the middle of that telegram a sentence in which I suggested it would be necessary to surrender the garrison, what he should do when he surrendered, and how he should do it."; "Why is the underplot of King Lear in which Edmund figures lifted out of [Philip] Sidney's Arcadia and spatchcocked on to a Celtic legend older than history?"; "Instead of introducing a separate bill on the alternative vote referendum, which would have been supported by Labour in a vote through parliament, the government has spatchcocked it together with the most blatant gerrymander of parliamentary constituency boundaries since the days of the rotten boroughs."figurativelytransitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "spatchcock"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "spatchcock"?

Scrabble
25 points
S1
P3
A1
T1
C3
H4
C3
O1
C3
K5
Words With Friends
28 points
S1
P4
A1
T1
C4
H3
C4
O1
C4
K5

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