Colloped
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Colloped is an adjective meaning Having ridges or bunches of flesh, like collops.
Meaning
Having ridges or bunches of flesh, like collops.
More Meanings
- Having been cut into collops (thin slices).
- simple past and past participle of collop
Example Sentences
Alive? he might be dead for aught I know, / With that red gaunt and colloped neck a-strain, / And shut eyes underneath the rusty mane;
"Lippy," the gunslinger said, and jerked a thumb back over his shoulder. "Yonder's pluggit, colloped neck and all, only female instead of male."
Cut some breast of cooked turkey, capon or fowl into need collops, add an equal amount of cooked and colloped sweetbread and some sliced truffles and mushrooms, and blend with German sauce.
Then dressed in solemn black, the respected Grand-ma of the Bridegroom, who was in such a fever to see the Bride, came stepping mincingly along the floor, glancing from side to side with an amiable look that ruffled the yellowish flesh of her colloped cheeks .
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include minced, cloppy, dollopy, flocculent, clotty, puffed.
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