Long, thin pointed sticks or metal rods used to hold meat or vegetables while cooking, or humorously, sharp critical comments.
From Old French 'escuire' or a related verb meaning to pierce or impale; historically wooden and metal pointed sticks have been cooking tools for thousands of years.
Kebabs and skewered cooking predate the word by millennia—nomadic peoples across Central Asia and the Middle East invented portable, efficient cooking by spearing meat on sticks over fire, and the technique spread along trade routes across the world.
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