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saveloy

[ sav-uh-loi ]

noun

Chiefly British.
  1. a highly seasoned, dried sausage.


saveloy

/ ˈæɪˌɔɪ /

noun

  1. a smoked sausage made from salted pork, well seasoned and coloured red with saltpetre
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of saveloy1

1830–40; probably < French cervelas, Middle French cervelat < Italian cervellato Milanese sausage, originally containing pig's brains, equivalent to cervell ( o ) brain ( cerebellum ) + -ato -ate 1
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of saveloy1

C19: probably via French from Italian cervellato, from cervello brain, from Latin cerebellum, diminutive of cerebrum brain
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She added like every Essex girl she is a lover of a chippy at the end of a night out and always had a hankering for a battered sausage or saveloy.

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Now devotees and converts from across the UK are visiting the Coventry takeaway in a pickled egg pilgrimage and saveloy sojourn.

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These included a woman complaining that she had been sent three saveloy and chips from the chip shop instead of one.

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The snack of choice was a "Sav and a Slice" - a saveloy sausage served with a slice of bread and English mustard.

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He roots among his supplies and offers me a fine piece of saveloy.

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