rotisserie

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rotisserie

  • /ɹəʊˈtɪ.sə.ɹi/
  • /ɹəʊˈtɪs.ɹi/
  • /ɹəˈtɪ.sə.ɹi/
  • /ɹəˈtɪs.ɹi/

Where it comes from

From French rôtisserie, from rôtir ‘to roast’. Doublet of rosticceria and roastery.

noun rotisseries · rôtisserie

  1. A cooking device with which food is roasted on a rotating spit. There will be no more misery / When the world is our rotisserie
  2. A shop or restaurant selling food cooked in this manner. Restaurants, chop-houses, rotisseries, abound in every part^([of San Francisco]).
  3. US, abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of rotisserie baseball, synonym of fantasy baseball.
  4. US, abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of rotisserie sports, synonym of fantasy sports.

verb rotisseries · rotisserieing · rotisseried · rôtisserie

  1. transitive To cook on a rotisserie.

Translations

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noun device, roasting rotating broiler

Españolspiedo, espiedo
Françaisrôtissoire
DeutschDrehspieß

noun cooked meat shop featuring rotisserie cooked meat

Españolrotisería, rosticería, rostisería, roticería
Françaisrôtisserie
Tiếng Việtrô-ti

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@misc{rotisserie_2026,
  title = {rotisserie},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rotisserie},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}