Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A highly seasoned smoked pork sausage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A highly seasoned dried sausage, originally made of brains, but now of young pork salted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of dried sausage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
seasoned pork sausage , normally purchased ready cooked
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a ready-cooked and highly seasoned pork sausage
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Those Camden years of mine, only option was saveloy, I almost starved.
Bruce Robinson: 'I'm just going to take my liver for a wash' 2011
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And when I bought those horrible little overdyed red saveloy thingees at the butcher, no one had any idea what the “cheerio” was that I asked for but instead offered me “little boys” – sigh
I say pyjama… 2008
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The lardy Deputy Prime Minister might have the body of a saveloy but in the department where it matters he is a chipolata, she recorded in her diaries.
John "2 inches" Prescott leads the Labour scum to oblivion. FIDO The Dog 2009
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We can't imagine why Linda Bollea is divorcing the bald, long-haired, bleach-blond, handlebar-moustachioed, saveloy-armed, grunting play-fighter Hulk Hogan, but the sad truth of the matter is that she is.
Hogan Speaks Out On His Son, While His Wife Gets Off With a 19-Year-Old 2007
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What would they say, who made so light of money, if they could know how I had scraped my halfpence together, for the purchase of my daily saveloy and beer, or my slices of pudding?
David Copperfield 2007
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And a formidable one at that – it's Hulk Hogan, who for two decades was the leading proponent of ripping flimsy T-shirts open, pretending to be deaf and flexing his saveloy-style arms in slow-motion to the sound of copyright-free hard rock music on VHS compilation tapes.
Rosie O’Donnell Gets All Hubba Hubba Over Elisabeth Hasselbeck 2007
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The noise of footsteps on the creaking stairs, a few minutes after the occurrence of this conversation, roused the merry old gentleman as he sat over the fire with a saveloy and a small loaf in his hand; a pocket – knife in his right; and a pewter pot on the trivet.
Oliver Twist 2007
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It's a saveloy bright red sausage dipped in the sort of batter that's used in fish-n-chips, and deep fried.
Unexpected StyleyGeek 2007
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Because while 17-year-old Nick Bollea hasn't inherited his father's premature balding or weirdly saveloy-style arms, but he does seem to have inherited Hulk's need for danger.
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"Half a pound of sausages and two saveloy dips, Mr. Braidford."
Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003
knitandpurl commented on the word saveloy
"Those who peddle frozen fish clad in batter as thick as their shop's Formica counter tops, with jars of sad pickled eggs and a lone, armour-plated saveloy waiting patiently for someone drunk enough to order it, are still around."
Eating for England by Nigel Slater, p 179
March 24, 2010