skewer

English

Meat on skewers

Bamboo skewers

Etymology

A variation of skiver.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskjuːə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈskjuːəɹ/
• Rhymes: -uːə(ɹ)

Noun

skewer (plural skewers)

1. A long pin, normally made of metal or wood, used to secure food during cooking.
2. Food served on a skewer
3. (chess) A scenario in which a piece attacks a more valuable piece which, if it moves aside, reveals a less valuable piece. Compare pin.^W

Translations

pin used to secure food during cooking

• Armenian: շամփուր (hy) (šampʻur), շիշ (hy) (šiš) (dialectal)
• Bashkir: шеш (şeş)
• Belarusian: шампу́р m (šampúr), ражо́н m (ražón), круця́к m (krucják)
• Bulgarian: шиш m (šiš)
• Catalan: broqueta f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 烤肉叉 (kǎoròuchā), 扦子 (zh) (qiānzi)

• Czech: špíz m
• Dutch: spies (nl)
• Estonian: varras
• Finnish: varras (fi), paistinvarras (fi)
• French: brochette (fr) f, broche (fr) f
• Georgian: შამფური (šampuri)
• German: Spieß (de) m, Spießchen n
• Greek: σούβλα (el) n (soúvla)

  Ancient Greek: ὀβελός m (obelós)

• Hebrew: שיפוד (he) m (shipud)
• Hungarian: nyárs (hu)
• Icelandic: spýta f
• Irish: briogún m, scibhéar m
• Japanese: 串 (ja) (くし, kushi)
• Korean: 꼬치 (ko) (kkochi), 꼬챙이 (kkochaeng'i)
• Latvian: iesms m
• Lithuanian: iešmas
• Macedonian: ра́жен m (rážen)
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• Maori: pūrou, pūrau, paoka
• Nogai: сис (sis)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: spyd (no) n

  Nynorsk: spyd n

• Persian: سیخ (fa) (six)
• Polish: szpikulec (pl) m
• Portuguese: espeto (pt) m
• Romanian: frigare (ro) f
• Russian: шампу́р (ru) m (šampúr), ве́ртел (ru) m (vértel)
• Scottish Gaelic: dealg f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ра́жањ m

  Roman: rážanj (sh) m

• Slovak: špíz m
• Spanish: brocheta (es) f, fierrito m, anticucho m, pincho (es)
• Swedish: spett (sv) n
• Tagalog: pantuhog
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: şiş (tr)
• Ukrainian: роже́н m (rožén), шампу́р m (šampúr)
• Uzbek: six (uz)
• Vietnamese: xiên (vi), xiên nướng thịt
• Welsh: gwäell f, gwaellen f

chess scenario

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: varras (fi)
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• French: enfilade (fr) f
• Russian: please add this translation if you can

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Translations to be checked

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} hell (sq) m
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Verb

skewer (third-person singular simple present skewers, present participle skewering, simple past and past participle skewered)

1. To impale on a skewer.
2. (chess) To attack a piece which has a less valuable piece behind it.
3. (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^[1], 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.

Translations

to impale on a skewer

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: vastprikken met een vleespin, aan het spit rijgen
• Finnish: varrastaa (fi), seivästää (fi)
• French: embrocher (fr)
• Galician: espetar (gl), espichar
• German: aufspießen
• Greek: σουβλίζω (el) (souvlízo), διατρυπώ (el) (diatrypó)
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• Italian: impalare
• Japanese: 串に刺す (くしにさす, kushi nisasu), 串刺しにする (くしざしにする, kushizashi ni suru)
• Maori: pūrou
• Portuguese: empalar (pt)
• Russian: насаживать (ru) (nasaživatʹ), пронзать (ru) (pronzatʹ)
• Spanish: ensartar (es)
• Tagalog: tumundok
• Turkish: şişlemek (tr)

chess: to attack a piece with a less valuable piece behind

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: varrastaa (fi)
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• French: enfilade (fr) f
• Russian: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• krewes, reskew, werkes