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Roasting   /rˈoʊstɪŋ/   Listen
Roasting

noun
1.
Cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added).


Roast

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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"Roasting" Quotes from Famous Books



... been ficas, grives, or thrushes, and other little birds, which are served up twice a day at all ordinaries on the road. They make their appearance in vine-leaves, and are always half raw, in which condition the French choose to eat them, rather than run the risque of losing the juice by over-roasting. ...
— Travels Through France and Italy • Tobias Smollett
... indeed when I behold Editions of Five Hundred Thousand sold; When Clippings show how Critics scorch me, then Hell's Roasting seems comparatively Cold! ...
— The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne • Gelett Burgess
... is philosophy, and means the study of the reasons and causes of the things which we see, whether it be applied to a crazy man's dreams, or the roasting of potatoes. ...
— McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey
... Miss Baker braced Em up wonderful; brought a lot of dried catnip out west with her for the baby; taught Em how to make salt-rising bread; told her all about stewing things and broiling things and roasting things; showed her how to tell the real Yankee codfish from the counterfeit—oh, she just did Em lots of good, ...
— The Holy Cross and Other Tales • Eugene Field
... recorded here that this was the only act of downright larceny that I committed during my entire term of service, except the gobbling of a couple of onions, which maybe I'll mention later. Of course I helped myself many times, while on the march, or on picket, to roasting ears, sweet potatoes, apples, and the like, but that came under the head of legitimate foraging, and was sanctioned by the ...
— The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 • Leander Stillwell


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