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WOTD  
Word of the Day - for Toastmasters everywhere
Friday 19th August 2022
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spatchcock (verb and adjective) SPATCH-kok



Insert something awkwardly: to introduce or interpose something into a piece of writing, especially in a forced or inappropriate way; to cobble together; cobbled together.

No one, surveying the spatchcock assemblage of specialist comprehensives, grammars and targets, could follow that dream today.

Peter Preston, The Guardian, 17 December 2001. Guardian

But one transport expert after another has argued that such a spatchcock scheme would fragment the system, rejected government claims that it would effectively transfer risk to the private sector and maintained it would be far cheaper to boost investment by keeping the Tube publicly owned and issuing bonds.

Seumas Milne, The Guardian, 15 November 2000.
Guardian

We might have tolerated that sort of spatchcock muddle at a time when the risk of flooding was lower, but it is no longer acceptable.

Mark Todd, Commons Hansard, 10 July 2002. Commons Hansard

It's a hurtle from coal mines to Treasury towers, Blackpool to Billingsgate, engaged in the hopeless but fascinating task of trying to spatchcock so many events, people and meanings into a single coherent narrative.

Andre Marr, Telegraph, 3 May 2006. Telegraph




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