roast

Meanings

Verb

• To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.
• To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
• To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat
• To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
• To admonish someone vigorously
• To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
• To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.

Noun

• A cut of meat suited to roasting
• A meal consisting of roast foods.
• The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
• A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.

Adjective

• Having been cooked by roasting.
• Subjected to roasting, bantered, severely criticized.

Origin

• From Middle English rosten, a borrowing from Old French rostir, from Frankish *rōstijan, from Proto-Germanic *raustijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *rews-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian rosterje, Dutch roosten, roosteren, German rösten.