ppl. a. [f. as prec.]
1. Of eels, etc.: Prepared as, made into, a spitchcock. Also transf. and fig.
a. 1643. W. Cartwright, Ordinary, II. i. No mild words shall bury My spitted, spitch cock’d … Rost’d fury.
a. 1683. Oldham, Wks. (1686), 77. I … drip like any Spitch-cock’d Huguenot.
1708. W. King, Art of Cookery, 55.
| Yet no Man lards salt Pork with Orange Peel, | |
| Or garnishes his Lamb with Spitchcockt Eel. |
1799. Monthly Mag., VII. 140/1. This spitchcock’d rattlesnake, And toasted toad.
1821. Scott, Kenilw., i. Though there were as good spitchcock’d eels on the board as ever were ta’en out of the Isis.
1840. J. T. J. Hewlett, P. Priggins, xvi. A dinner of Spitchcock’d eels and underdone beefsteaks was ordered.
¶ 2. = SPATCHCOCKED ppl. a.
1861. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxf., iii. The college kitchen furnished a spitchcocked chicken, or grilled turkey’s leg.
