skewer
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English skeuier, skuer, likely a variant of Middle English *skever, *skiver (compare Modern English skiver), probably of North Germanic origin, compare Icelandic skífa (“to slice”), Norwegian skive, Swedish skiva, Swedish skifer (“a slate”).
Noun
skewer (plural skewers)
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The white king is skewered by the black bishop, since after it moves out of check, the bishop can capture the white queen.
- A long pin, normally made of metal or wood, used to secure food during cooking.
- 1951 November, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 731:
- Larissa, 107 miles from Salonica, is reached at 10.33, and there is a halt of 17 min. while vendors of oranges, cheese, meat on skewers, sweetmeats, and Turkish coffee do a brisk trade.
- Food served on a skewer. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (chess) A scenario in which a piece attacks a more valuable piece which, if it moves aside, reveals a less valuable piece.
- Hyponyms: absolute skewer, relative skewer
- Coordinate term: pin
Derived terms
Translations
pin used to secure food during cooking
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chess scenario
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Verb
skewer (third-person singular simple present skewers, present participle skewering, simple past and past participle skewered)
- To impale on a skewer.
- (chess) To attack a piece which has a less valuable piece behind it.
- (figurative) To severely mock or discredit.
- 2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 7 December 2017:
- Parody, in its purest form, is an act of both mockery and appreciation. True masters of the practice possess a bone-deep understanding of their targets; they skewer because they love—or at least, because they’ve done their homework.
- 2022 January 13, Mark Landler, “U.K. Monarchy and Government Plunge Into Simultaneous Crises”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, image caption:
- A journalist outside 10 Downing Street on Thursday displaying one of the many tabloid covers skewering Mr. Johnson.
Translations
to impale on a skewer
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Etymology 2
Noun
skewer (plural skewers)
Adjective
skewer
- comparative form of skew: more skew
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