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Roasted

adjective

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

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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"Roasted" Quotes from Famous Books

... were a little discouraged, but soon they brought in a great tray containing two dozen nicely roasted quail on toast. ...

— Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz • L. Frank Baum.

... memory is that the Swiss Guard at the Louvre surreptitiously acquired a "quartier" of the dismembered body of the regicide and roasted it in a fire set alight beneath the balcony of Marie de Medici as an indication of their faithfulness ...

— Royal Palaces and Parks of France • Milburg Francisco Mansfield

... his ways and roasted it on a rod; and when the blood bubbled out he laid his finger thereon to essay it, if it were fully done; and then he set his finger in his mouth, and lo, when the heart-blood of the worm touched his tongue, straightway he knew the voice of all fowls, ...

— The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) - With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda • Anonymous

... You are married, my dear Reginald?" Aristide leaped, in his unexpected fashion, from his chair and almost embraced him. "Ah, but you are happy, you are lucky. It was always like that. You open your mouth and the larks fall ready roasted into it! My congratulations. And she is here, in this hotel, your wife? Tell me ...

— The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol • William J. Locke

... chickens—was already achieving the third—a crisply browned bird, fresh from the spit, fragrant and smoking hot. At intervals he buttered great slices of rye bread, or disposed of an entire young potato, washing it down with a goblet of red wine, but always he returned to the rich roasted fowl which he held, still impaled upon its spit, and which he carved as he ate, wings, legs, breast falling in steaming flakes under his ...

— Barbarians • Robert W. Chambers

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