collop
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collop
- /ˈkɒləp/ UK
Sounds like call-up · Rhymes with -ɒləp
Where it comes from
Late Middle English, of North Germanic origin, from Swedish kalops (“stewed meat”), from Old Swedish kollops (“slices of beef stew”). Cognate to German Klops (“dish of meat made tender by beating”).
noun collops
- A slice of meat. "It was till lately believed by the ploughmen of Clydesdale, that if they repeated the rhyme Fairy, fairy, bake me a bannock and roast me a collop, And I'll gie ye a spurtle off my gadend! three several times on turning their cattle at the terminations of ridges, they would find the said fare prep
- A slice of bacon, a rasher.
- A roll or fold of flesh on the body.
- A small piece, portion, or slice of something.
verb collops · colloping · colloped
- To cut into collops (thin slices) This induced me to make a further trial, and to get some of them colloped as we do oysters in shells, I swallowed them up myself.
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title = {collop},
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