collop

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
14
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈkɒləp/

Definition of collop

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (Northern-England)A slice of meat.
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noun

  1. (Northern-England)A slice of meat.
  2. (obsolete)A slice of bacon, a rasher.
  3. A roll or fold of flesh on the body.
  4. A small piece, portion, or slice of something.

verb

  1. 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.”
    “They colloped it, and spitted skilfully, Then roasted carefully and slipped them off.”
    “I neither egged thee nor colloped thee. If I had egged thee, though mights yet chese.”
    “There was one fine bullock already butchered and being colloped by the cooking fires of the Burns and several sheep on the way to the same fate.”

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Etymology

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”).

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