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saveloy

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13
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14
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈsævəlɔɪ/
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/ˈsævəlɔɪ/ · /ˈsævəˌlɔɪ/ · /ˈsævəloɪ/ · /ˈsɛvəloe/

Definition of saveloy

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (Australia, British, New-Zealand)A seasoned and smoked pork sausage, normally purchased ready-cooked.
    “Savoloys. TAKE ſix pounds of young pork, free it from bone and ſkin, and ſalt it with one ounce of ſalt-petre, and a pound of common ſalt, for two days; [...]”
    “Savaloys, or Cervelas. [...] Fill the gut, and bake the savaloys for half an hour in a moderate oven.”
    “When I dined regularly and handsomely, I had a saveloy and a penny-loaf, or a fourpenny plate of red beef from a cook's shop; [...]”
    “"She always has a savaloy for supper, and I'm going to fetch it, and the beer." [...] [H]e walked arm-in-arm with the golden-tressed creature who now carried the savaloy for her mother in a piece of old newspaper!”

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Etymology

From a corruption of cervelat (“Swiss smoked beef or pork sausage”) or French cervelas (“type of thick, short sausage”) (perhaps influenced by Savoy (“historical region in western Europe now shared…

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From a corruption of cervelat (“Swiss smoked beef or pork sausage”) or French cervelas (“type of thick, short sausage”) (perhaps influenced by Savoy (“historical region in western Europe now shared between modern France, Italy, and Switzerland”)), both from Old French cervelat, from Italian cervellata (compare Italian cervelletto (“cerebellum”), cervello (“brain”), probably from the fact that the sausage was originally made from pork brains), from Old Milanese Lombard zervelada, from Latin cerebellum (“brain; little brain”), from cerebrum (“brain”) (from Proto-Italic *kerazrom, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“head, top; horn”)) + -ellum (suffix forming diminutives).

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