Definition of "spitchcock" []

• To split an eel along the back and then broil it. (verb)
• Eel prepared by spitchcocking. (noun)

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• "Every _pretty_ expression, (I know there were many) every warm expression, there was nothing else, is vulgarised and frozen -- but if they catch me in their camps again let them spitchcock me."