SAVELOY

saveloy

(noun) a ready-cooked and highly seasoned pork sausage

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

saveloy (plural saveloys)

(chiefly, Australia, Britain, New Zealand) A seasoned and smoked pork sausage, normally purchased ready-cooked.

Synonym: sav (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial)

Hypernyms

• sausage

Hyponyms

• battered sav

• cheerio (Australia)

• cocktail sausage

• cocktail sav

• little boy (Australia)

Anagrams

• Salovey

Source: Wiktionary


Sav"e*loy, n. Etym: [F. cervelas, It. cervellata, fr. cervello brain, L. cerebellum, dim. of cerebrum brain. See Cerebral.]

Definition: A kind of dried sausage. McElrath.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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