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a spear small enough for snacks, sharp enough to settle the argument over the last shrimp.
means A skewer is a thin pointed rod of metal or wood used to pierce and hold pieces of food together, especially for grilling or roasting.
from From an older English dialect word 'skiver,' of uncertain ancestry but probably borrowed from a Scandinavian source — compare the Old Norse 'skifa,' a slice, and related northern words for splinters and thin cuts of wood. The thread running through them is something thin, split, and sharp: the very shape of a thing made for spearing. The 'verb' sense — to skewer an argument, a rival, a politician — came later, the kitchen tool reborn as a metaphor for a clean, fatal puncture.
- ancient tool
- Humans cooked on sticks before inventing the wheel.
- verb mode
- To skewer also means to brutally mock someone.
- double duty
- Two skewers per kebab stop meat from spinning.
- deadly origin
- The word shares roots with weapons, not dinner.
- bamboo bias
- Soak wooden ones first or they ignite mid-grill.