roasting
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
- present participle of roast#English|roast
- 1922, "The Bride's Cookery Primer", Good Housekeeping, Volume 74, page 66
- Broiling is but another way of roasting those cuts of meat which have a broad, flat surface such as steaks, chops, or cutlets.
- 1922, "The Bride's Cookery Primer", Good Housekeeping, Volume 74, page 66
roasting
- (colloquial) Very hot.
- The day started out cool, but by noon it was roasting.
roasting (plural roastings)
- The act by which something is roasted.
- 1885, Henry Marion Howe, Copper smelting (page 15)
- These elements are expelled more completely by a large number of comparatively incomplete roastings (alternated, of course, with smeltings) than by a smaller number of extremely thorough roastings […]
- 1885, Henry Marion Howe, Copper smelting (page 15)
- (colloquial) A rebuke or reprimand (usually from the recipient's point of view).
- My boss gave me a roasting for last month's sales figures.
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