I checked and Today's Word was not hijacked from wwftd. Tsuwm can't find them all.
...and I don't know how I've managed to miss it. It certainly qualifies.
So, for those of us not suscribed to AWAD, what is this mystery word?
NOT subscribed to AWAD? blaspheme!
spatchcock (SPACH-kok) verb tr.
1. To insert or interpose something in a forced or awkward manner.
2. To split open a fowl for grilling.
noun
A fowl prepared in this manner.
[Of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of spitchcock, a similar way of
cooking an eel. Popular interpretation as a shortening of "dispatch cock"
is etymologically not confirmed.]
"A spatchcocked version of flexibility was adopted when the EU's 15
governments held a constitutional conference in 1996-97, and produced the
Amsterdam treaty that came into force last year. They agreed that groups
of countries should be free to do their own thing--so long as no other EU
country objected, which rather negated the point."
European Union: Order a la Carte?, The Economist (London), Apr 22, 2000.
"The author manages to spatchcock together Democratic despair at
approaching elections, Truman's low political clout, his posing for a
portrait, his listening to a baseball game in the 1946 World Series and
his being the only man in formal attire at a reception for Supreme Court
justices."
Kathleen Burk, Truman (book review), History Today (London), Feb 1, 1994.
>NOT subscribed to AWAD? blaspheme!
I was, but when I changed email addresses, I couldn't be bothered resubscribing. call it antapathy, if you will
Dear sjm: If you scroll way,way,way down to foot of page, click on "Today's Word".
As if I could tell you anything about AWADtalk. Incidentally, my very best wishes to you.
Thanks for the tip, Dr. Bill, I shall be able to keep up wih these threads now. I hope your Solstice was all you wished it to be.