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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

... to hear the dealers blame or laugh at his father, but he did feel that it had been so, so cruel to sell Hirschvogel. The mere memory of all those long winter evenings, when they had all closed round it, and roasted chestnuts or crab-apples in it, and listened to the howling of the wind and the deep sound of the church-bells, and tried very much to make each other believe that the wolves still came down from the mountains into the streets of Hall, and were that very minute growling at the house-door,—all ...

— The Nuernberg Stove • Louisa de la Rame (AKA Ouida)

... women were not treated very well by their lords: they had to do all the carrying when on the march. At mealtimes they would sit in a row behind the men. The game—a kangaroo, for instance—would be roughly roasted at the camp fire with its fur still on. The men would devour the best portions and throw the rest over their ...

— Peeps At Many Lands: Australia • Frank Fox

... roasted and ground product of the seeds found within the fruit of a tree, the Coffea Arabica. Originally a native of Abyssinia, it was transported into Arabia at the beginning of the fifteenth century. Since then it has been widely cultivated in the West Indies, in Ceylon, and in other warm ...

— The Art of Living in Australia • Philip E. Muskett (?-1909)

... and finding it fat, and not having any other resource, he considered it to be a proper food for such a woman; and without thinking any further, he wrung its neck and ordered his servant that, it being plucked and prepared, it should be put on the spit and roasted immediately. And setting the table with the whitest of linen, of which he had still a little left, with a delighted countenance he returned to the lady and told her that such dinner as he was able to prepare for her ...

— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 5 • Various

... black boy, who was more of a show to them than a whole circus with six clowns would be to us. As he watched the boys lay the sticks and start the blaze, Zeb's eyes rolled more wildly than ever. No doubt he thought that he himself was to be roasted over the coals, and when at last he saw William lay a big fish on the fire instead, his relief was so great that for the first time he showed a row of gleaming teeth in a hopeful grin. Daniel brought him a huge piece of it when the fish was cooked, and from ...

— The Puritan Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins

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