What does "rotisserie" mean?

A cooking device with which food is roasted on a rotating spit.

How do you pronounce "rotisserie"?

Pronounced //ɹəʊˈtɪ.sə.ɹi//.

Common synonyms include: roast, roasting on a spit, roasting spit, rotary spit, rotisserie cooking, rotisserie roast.

/ɹəʊˈtɪ.sə.ɹi/ noun, verb

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Noun

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 restaurant that specializes in roasted and barbecued meats wordnet
3
A shop or restaurant selling food cooked in this manner.
"Restaurants, chop-houses, rotisseries, abound in every part^([of San Francisco])."
4
an oven or broiler equipped with a rotating spit on which meat cooks as it turns wordnet
5
Ellipsis of rotisserie baseball, synonym of fantasy baseball. US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

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Ellipsis of rotisserie sports, synonym of fantasy sports. US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Verb

"There will be no more misery / When the world is our rotisserie"

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