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saveloy

Syllables: sa·ve·loy/ˈsævəlɔɪ/US/ˈsævəˌlɔɪ/

saveloy noun: a seasoned and smoked pork sausage, normally purchased ready-cooked.

Noun

saveloy (plural saveloys)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK) 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; [...]1788, [Hannah] Glasse, “Of Hogs-puddings, Sausages, &c.”, in The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy; […], new edition, London: […] J[ohn] Rivington and Sons, […], →OCLC, page 257
    • Savaloys, or Cervelas. [...] Fill the gut, and bake the savaloys for half an hour in a moderate oven.[1810], [Esther Copley], “Stuffings, Seasonings, Forcemeat, &c.”, in The Cook’s Complete Guide, on the Principles of Frugality, Comfort, and Elegance […], London: George Virtue, […], →OCLC, page 394
    Synonyms:
    sav

Examples of saveloy in a sentence

  • 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; [...]1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, “I Begin Life on My Own Account, and Don’t Like It”, in The Personal History of David...
  • After all, there's nothing like saveloys, is there?1882, Henry Arthur Jones, “The Silver King”, in Russell Jackson, editor, Plays by Henry Arthur Jones: The Silver King, The Case of the...
  • He's free, you idiot, Sheephead Morton said, parting his own wet hair with his saveloy fingers and putting his slouch hat back on.2013, Richard Flanagan, chapter 8, in The Narrow Road to the Deep North (A Borzoi Book), New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, published...

Synonyms of saveloy

Forms of saveloy

pluralsaveloys
alternative formsavaloy
alternative formsavoloy

Origin of saveloy

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cervellata (compare Italian cervelletto (“cerebellum”), cervello (“brain”), probably from the fact that the sausage was originally made from pork brains), from Old Milanese Lombard zervelada, from Latin cerebellum (“brain; little brain”), from cerebrum (“brain”) (from Proto-Italic *kerazrom,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).

Words formed from saveloy

Phrases with saveloy

Questions about saveloy

What does saveloy mean?
Saveloy means a seasoned and smoked pork sausage, normally purchased ready-cooked.
How do you use saveloy in a sentence?
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; [...]
What part of speech is saveloy?
Saveloy is a noun.
How do you pronounce saveloy?
Saveloy is pronounced /ˈsævəlɔɪ/ (UK).
What is the plural of saveloy?
The plural of saveloy is saveloys.

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