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Roasting

noun

Cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added).

Roast

verb

(past & past part. roasted; pres. part. roasting)

Cook with dry heat, usually in an oven.

Subject to laughter or ridicule. Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, ridicule. "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher" , "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday"

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"Roasting" Quotes from Famous Books

... plunged into the poultry shop, where the blazing fire accounted to her companion for her heightened color. The proprietor had an extra pullet on the spit roasting for a chance customer. He pronounced it "charmante et tendre," and the hungry crowd declared he ...

— Molly Brown's Orchard Home • Nell Speed

... sumptuous banquets of the Febrers, who fed a swarm of parasites, and lavished generosity on all their friends who visited the island. Antonia looked dwarfed in this high-ceiled, spacious room, standing near a great fireplace which would hold an enormous pile of wood and was capable of roasting several animals at once. The ranks of ovens might serve for an entire community. The chill cleanliness of this adjunct of the palace showed lack of use. On the walls great iron hooks called attention to the absence of the ...

— The Dead Command - From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... Have seen a Jew, and seen one burn at that; Hard by in Wartburg; he had killed a child. Zounds! how the serpent wriggled! I smell now The roasting, stinking flesh! ...

— The Poems of Emma Lazarus - Vol. II. (of II.), Jewish Poems: Translations • Emma Lazarus

... whether pyner mentioned along with powder-fort, saffron, and salt, No. 155, as above in No. 161, should not be read pynes. But, after all, we have cones brought hither from Italy full of nuts, or kernels, which upon roasting come out of their capsul, and are much eaten by the common people, and these perhaps may be the ...

— The Forme of Cury • Samuel Pegge

... and gardening engrossed Doris. She had been learning housekeeping in all its branches under the experienced tuition of Miss Recompense and Dinah. A girl who did not know everything from the roasting of a turkey to the making of sack-posset, and through all the gradations of pickling and preserving, was not ...

— A Little Girl in Old Boston • Amanda Millie Douglas

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