Is there a word for "butchering" a chicken into parts but if the chicken's already dead?

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Is there a specific word for cutting up a chicken into parts? Like how "field dressing" means to remove organs from game, is there a term for cutting a chicken into its respective parts?

BoldBen · Accepted Answer

In the UK at least you can "joint" a chicken. British TV chef and cookery book writer Delia Smith gives full instructions here but other online sources also use the term. Whether it's used in the US I don't know but as John Lawler suggests "cut up" in his comment I suspect not.
You can also spatchcock or butterfly a chicken but this merely removes some of the bones and lays the bird flat for faster cooking, it doesn't cut it into pieces.

DJClayworth · Answer

Butchering an animal does not imply that it is alive. You can butcher a dead animal. In fact that is a normal use of "butcher", being what a butcher (noun) does.

Is there a word for "butchering" a chicken into parts but if the chicken's already dead?

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