Collop
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈkɒləp/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Collop is a noun meaning (Northern England) A slice of meat.
Meaning
(Northern England) A slice of meat.
More Meanings
- A roll or fold of flesh on the body.
- A small piece, portion, or slice of something.
- To cut into collops (thin slices)
- (obsolete) A slice of bacon, a rasher.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
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.
Word Forms
- collops
- colloping
- colloped
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include minced, chop, lambchop, escalope, cutlet, lobbies.
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