ROAST
What does "ROAST" mean?
To cook food, especially meat, by prolonged exposure to dry heat in an oven or over a fire.
Meanings
- To cook by dry radiant heat, as in an oven or over flame. We'll roast the chicken for ninety minutes.
- A cut of meat cooked or intended to be cooked by roasting. She pulled the Sunday roast from the oven.
- To mock or criticize someone harshly, often affectionately at an event. His friends roasted him mercilessly at the retirement party. informal
- To dry and brown coffee beans, nuts, or peppers with heat. They roast the beans in small batches each morning.
Did you know?
- The comedic 'roast' - turning the heat on a guest of honour - grew out of the New York Friars Club's testimonial dinners, where affectionate insults replaced praise from the 1950s onward.
Word origin
From Old French 'rostir', of Germanic origin, related to the notion of cooking on a grate or gridiron.
Remember it
ROAST: a Really Old-fashioned Apply-heat-Slowly Tradition - whether you're cooking meat or your best friend.
A little poem
The oven hums; the skin turns gold and tight-
we burn what we love best, in heat or in jest.
couplet
Wordplay
- The chef and the comedian both said they'd roast me tonight - only one of them planned to feed me afterward.
What it teaches
Heat reveals character: it browns the bland and lets the well-made come out richer than it went in.
Quick facts
What does ROAST mean?
To cook food, especially meat, by prolonged exposure to dry heat in an oven or over a fire.
Is ROAST a valid word?
Yes — ROAST is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is ROAST?
ROAST has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does ROAST come from?
From Old French 'rostir', of Germanic origin, related to the notion of cooking on a grate or gridiron.
What can ROAST teach us?
Heat reveals character: it browns the bland and lets the well-made come out richer than it went in.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.