collop

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Who can do him a red deer collop, except Sally herself, as I can?

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  1. noun A small portion of food or a slice, especially of meat.
  2. noun A roll of fat flesh.

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  • Wherever grass grows there will a Kerry calf or "collop" be found. —  Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
  • Who can do him a red deer collop, except Sally herself, as I can? —  Lorna Doone A Romance of Exmoor
  • Now begin; and I will join you There was no disobeying her, without rudeness; and indeed the girls' feet were already jigging; and Lizzie giving herself wonderful airs with a roll of learned music; and even while Annie was doing my collop, her pretty round instep was arching itself, as I could see from the parlour-door. —  Lorna Doone A Romance of Exmoor
  • The world knows what they are; and Canada ought to have some slight acquaintance with them: as they built her into the worthless Grand Trunk at a ruinous figure, and, like her present, leading, political juggler, Sir John A., fleeced her in every direction that a collop could be cut out of her It was amongst such tricksters, English, Irish and Scotch, that Greaves, for the most part, moved secretly from the moment of his arrival in the Province up to the date at which we find him at Port Colborne. —  Ridgeway An Historical Romance of the Fenian Invasion of Canada
  • With plenty of egg sandwiches and marmalade sandwiches, and cold minced-collop sandwiches, he pricked forth into the wilderness, making for the country inhabited by the Yellow Dwarf. —  Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia being the adventures of Prince Prigio's son
 

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  1. Middle English.

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  1. from Middle English collop, colop, colloppe, coloppe, a slice of flesh (for roasting, etc.), = Swedish kalops, formerly kallops, kollops, slices of beef stewed, = German klops, a dish of meat made tender by beating; prob. of Low German origin: cf. Dutch klop, a knock, stroke, stamp (= German klopf, a knock), from kloppen, knock, beat (= German klopfen, knock), related to klappen = German klaffen = Swedish klappa = English clap, q. v. Cf. English dial, clop for clap. Otherwise from Old French colp, French coup, a blow, stroke: see coup.
 

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/ˈkɑləp/
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