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Roast

adjective

1.

(meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven. Synonym: roasted.

noun

1.

A piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion. Synonym: joint.

2.

Negative criticism. Synonym: knock.

verb

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

1.

Cook with dry heat, usually in an oven.

2.

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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"Roast" Quotes from Famous Books

... between the natives and our people was already so general that there was scarce a man in the ship who had not his tyo or friend. Tinah continued with me the whole afternoon, in the course of which he ate four times of roast pork besides his dinner. When he left the ship he requested I would keep for him all the presents I had given to him as he had not at Matavai a place sufficiently safe to secure them from being stolen; I therefore showed him a locker ...

— A Voyage to the South Sea • William Bligh

... you didn't know a few more stories yourself, Bill," retorted Mr. Popham; "then you'd be asked up oftener to put on the back-log for 'em, and pop corn and roast apples and pass the evenin'. I ain't hed sech a gay winter sence I begun settin' up with Maria, ...

— Mother Carey's Chickens • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... power to snatch the soul into the starry empyrean, nor a Tennyson in variety and passion, nor a Milton in grandeur of poetic expression. He is—only Longfellow. But that means he has his own peculiar charm. It is idle to detract from the fame of one man because he is not some one else. Roast beef may be more nutritious than strawberries, but that is no criticism upon the flavor of the strawberry. Longfellow is not Milton, but ...

— Stories of Authors, British and American • Edwin Watts Chubb

... snow-white blossoms over me, While other chickens by the dozen Unheeding cackled round their cousin. 'Twas then the pastor happened by, Spoke to the smith, then smiling, "Hi! And have you come to this, poor cock A strange bird, Andrew, for your flock! He'll hardly do to broil or roast; For me though, I may fairly boast Things must go hard if I've no place For old church servants in hard case. Bring him along then speedily And drink a glass of ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various

... in addition to these, three fine sheep's carcasses hung in the workroom. It need scarcely be said that we were fully capable of appreciating these unexpected luxuries. Seal-beef, no doubt, had done excellent service, but this did not prevent roast mutton and pork being a welcome change, especially as they came as a complete surprise. I hardly think one of us had counted on the possibility of getting fresh meat before we were ...

— The South Pole, Volumes 1 and 2 • Roald Amundsen

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