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saveloy
[ sav-uh-loi ]
noun
Chiefly British.
- a highly seasoned, dried sausage.
saveloy
/ ˈæɪˌɔɪ /
noun
- a smoked sausage made from salted pork, well seasoned and coloured red with saltpetre
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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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