Butterfly vs. Spatchcock — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Butterfly and Spatchcock
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Butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight.
Spatchcock
A dressed and split fowl for roasting or grilling.
Butterfly
A nectar-feeding insect with two pairs of large, typically brightly coloured wings that are covered with microscopic scales. Butterflies are distinguished from moths by having clubbed or dilated antennae, holding their wings erect when at rest, and being active by day.
Spatchcock
To prepare (a dressed fowl) for roasting or grilling by splitting open.
Butterfly
A stroke in swimming in which both arms are raised out of the water and lifted forwards together.
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Spatchcock
To introduce or interpose, especially in a labored or unsuitable manner
"Some excerpts from a Renaissance mass are spatchcocked into Gluck's pallid Don Juan music" (Alan Rich).
Butterfly
Split (a piece of meat or fish) almost in two and spread it out flat
Butterfly the shrimp using a small sharp knife
Spatchcock
Poultry which has been cut along the spine and spread out for more even cooking.
Butterfly
Any of numerous insects of the order Lepidoptera, having four broad, usually colorful wings, and generally distinguished from the moths by having a slender body and knobbed antennae and being active during the day.
Spatchcock
(cooking) To cut (poultry) along the spine and spread the halves apart for more even cooking.
For the party, he spatchcocked and grilled some chickens.
Butterfly
A person interested principally in frivolous pleasure
A social butterfly.
Spatchcock
(figuratively) Often followed by in or into: to interpolate or insert (something into another thing); to sandwich (something within another thing).
Butterfly
A swimming stroke in which a swimmer lying face down draws both arms upward out of the water, thrusts them forward, and draws them back under the water in an hourglass design while performing a dolphin kick.
Spatchcock
See Spitchcock.
Butterfly
A race or a leg of a race in which this stroke is swum.
Spatchcock
Flesh of a chicken (or game bird) split down the back and grilled (usually immediately after being killed)
Butterfly
Butterflies A feeling of unease or mild nausea caused especially by fearful anticipation.
Spatchcock
Prepare for eating if or as if a spatchcock;
Spatchcock a guine hen
Butterfly
To cut and spread open and flat, as shrimp.
Spatchcock
Interpolate or insert (words) into a sentence or story
Butterfly
A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring.
Butterfly
A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.
Butterfly tape; butterfly bandage; butterfly strips
Butterfly
(swimming) The butterfly stroke.
Butterfly
Any of several plane curves that look like a butterfly; see Butterfly curve (transcendental) and Butterfly curve (algebraic). Category:en:Curves
Butterfly
(in plural) A sensation of excited anxiety felt in the stomach.
I get terrible butterflies before an exam.
Butterfly
Someone seen as being unserious and (originally) dressed gaudily; someone flighty and unreliable.
Butterfly
(finance) A combination of four options of the same type at three strike prices giving limited profit and limited risk.
Butterfly
(alternate history) A random change in an aspect of the timeline seemingly unrelated to the primary point of divergence, resulting from the butterfly effect.
One potential butterfly could be JFK having another son the year after the POD instead of a daughter.
Butterfly
(sports) A type of stretch in which one sits on the ground with the legs folded into a shape like that of a butterfly's wings, slightly rocking them up and down, resembling the wings fluttering.
Butterfly
A person who changes partners frequently.
Butterfly
(transitive) To cut (food) almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.
Butterflied shrimp
Butterfly the chicken before you grill it.
Butterfly
(transitive) To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound) to close it.
Butterfly
To cause events after the point of divergence to not happen as they did in real history, and people conceived after the point of divergence to not exist in recognizable form, due to the random variations introduced by the butterfly effect.
Pearl Harbor not happening would've butterflied Taylor Swift.
Butterfly
A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera.
Butterfly
Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings
Butterfly
A swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down
Butterfly
Flutter like a butterfly
Butterfly
Cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking;
Butterflied shrimp
Butterfly
Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions;
The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries
My husband never flirts with other women
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