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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



... found Auntie Mogs sitting before the fire in the living-room, roasting chestnuts, while Martha stood in the doorway and offered ...
— Phyllis - A Twin • Dorothy Whitehill
... about, crazy man?" rumbled the troll-wife. She turned to the girl. "Heap the fire, Hildigund, and set up the roasting spit. Tonight ...
— The Valor of Cappen Varra • Poul William Anderson
... corn, roasting in the ashes, or fresh fish sizzling on hot stones gave a charm to the learning of wood-lore that it never could have possessed otherwise. At first with the heedlessness of city-bred boys, they crashed through the under-brush with ...
— The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware • Annie Fellows Johnston
... they danced like maniacs round the fire; looking, in fact, like so many wild Indians, dancing round their roasting victims, or some demons ...
— Varney the Vampire - Or the Feast of Blood • Thomas Preskett Prest
... setting it again he broke the cord, and driven by hunger went forth, revolver in hand. He saw fresh deer tracks, and was lucky enough to find his quarry, steal close and shoot it. His hunger made him reckless and he lit a fire, roasting the meat on planted sticks. But the birds came and wheeled about overhead and the specks of moving birds in the sky can be ...
— Treasure and Trouble Therewith - A Tale of California • Geraldine Bonner


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