different between covey vs spatchcock

English

Etymology 1

From Old French covee (Modern French couvée), from Latin cub? (“lie”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?v??, IPA^(key): /?k?vi/

Noun

covey (plural coveys)

1. A group of 8–12 (or more) quail.

   Coordinate terms: flock, gaggle, host

2. A brood of partridges, grouse, etc.

   • laid for by the fowler, together with their covey of young birds

3. A party or group (of persons or things).
   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 736

     A covey of grey soldiers clanked down the platform at the double with their equipment and embarked, but in absolute silence, which seemed to them very singular.

Translations

Verb

covey (third-person singular simple present coveys, present participle coveying, simple past and past participle coveyed)

1. (intransitive) To brood; to incubate.
   • Book 9

     [Tortoises] couvie a whole yeere before they hatch

References

• 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology, Oxford University Press, ?ISBN

Etymology 2

cove +? -y

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??vi/
• (US) enPR: k??v?, IPA^(key): /?ko?vi/

Noun

covey (plural coveys)

1. (Britain, slang, dated) A man.

Synonyms

• bloke (UK), chap (UK), chappie (UK), cove (UK), guy, see also Thesaurus:man

Translations

Anagrams

• voyce

English

Etymology

Related to spitchcock (“to split and broil an eel”), of uncertain origin. Possibly a corruption of dispatch + cock.

Noun

spatchcock (plural spatchcocks)

1. Chicken meat when prepared by spatchcocking. (See below.)
2. A rushed effort.

Verb

spatchcock (third-person singular simple present spatchcocks, present participle spatchcocking, simple past and past participle spatchcocked)

1. To cut poultry along the spine and spread the halves apart, for more even cooking when grilled.

   spatchcocked chicken

2. To interpolate, insert or sandwich (in or into)
   • 1922, Joyce, Ulysses, chapter 9

     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?

3. To prepare in haste.

Synonyms

• (prepare chicken): frog

Derived terms

• spatchcocking (n.)
• spatchcocked (adj.)
• spatchcock (n.)

See also

• butterfly
• spitchcock