different between poussin vs spatchcock

English

Etymology

French poussin

Noun

poussin (plural poussins)

1. A chicken reared to be eaten at a few weeks of age.
2. A Cornish game hen.

Anagrams

• spinous

French

Etymology

From Late Latin pullic?nus. Compare Italian pulcino.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu.s??/

Noun

poussin m (plural poussins)

1. chick (a young chicken)

Further reading

• “poussin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• puisons, supions

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