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Etymology

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The noun is derived from Middle English spiche-coke (eel split lengthwise and broiled).[1] The further etymology is uncertain;[2][3] the following possibilities have been suggested:

The verb is probably derived from the noun.

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Noun

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spitchcock (plural spitchcocks) (cooking)

  1. (obsolete) A method of cooking an eel (or occasionally some other fish) by splitting it along the back, cutting it into pieces, and broiling or frying it. [late 16th – 18th c.]
  2. (by extension, archaic or obsolete) An eel (or other fish) prepared in this way. [from early 17th c.]

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Verb

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spitchcock (third-person singular simple present spitchcocks, present participle spitchcocking, simple past and past participle spitchcocked)

  1. (transitive, cooking, archaic or obsolete) To cook (an eel, or occasionally some other fish) by splitting it along the back, cutting it into pieces, and broiling or frying it.

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  1. ^ spiche-coke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. ^ spitchcock, n.”, in OED Online  , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022.
  3. ^ spitchcock, n and v.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, reproduced from Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, →ISBN.
  4. ^ cọ̄ken, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  5. ^ Harold H[erman] Bender, Stephen J[oseph] Herben, Jr. (1927) “English Spick, Speck, Spitchcock, and Spike”, in C. W. E. Miller, editor, American Journal of Philology, volume 48, number 3, Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 259.
  6. ^ cọ̄k, n.(6)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  7. ^ spik, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  8. ^ spīk(e, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  9. ^ spit(e, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  10. ^ cok, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.