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单词 pitchcocked
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pitchcockedadj.

Forms: 1700s pitchcock'd, 1800s pichcock't.
Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: spitchcocked adj.
Etymology: Apparently alteration of spitchcocked adj., perhaps after pitch n.1 or pitch v.2 Compare slightly earlier pitchcocking n., pitchcock n., and slightly later pitchcock v.
Cookery. Obsolete.
= spitchcocked adj.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > [adjective] > method of dressing eel
spitchcockeda1643
pitchcocked1741
1741 Smith's Compl. Housewife (ed. 10) sig. A4 Tench stewed, with pitchcock'd Eels.
a1798 R. B. Sheridan Let. (1966) II. 85 You shall find a boil'd Lark and pitchcock'd Sprat ready for you.
a1827 W. Hickey Mem. (1960) xviii. 294 A house famous for dressing pichcock't eels.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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