Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

collop

/ˈkɒləp/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: col-lop
IPA: /ˈkɒləp/

10

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A slice of meat.

noun

A slice of bacon, a rasher.

Obsolete

noun

A roll or fold of flesh on the body.

noun

A small piece, portion, or slice of something.

verb

To cut into collops (thin slices)

Example Sentences

""It was till lately believed by the ploughmen of Clydesdale, that if they repeated the rhyme Fairy, fairy, bake me a bannock and roast me a collop, And I'll gie ye a spurtle off my gadend! three several times on turning their cattle at the terminations of ridges, they would find the said fare prepared for them on reaching the end of the fourth furrow.""
"This induced me to make a further trial, and to get some of them colloped as we do oysters in shells, I swallowed them up myself."
"They colloped it, and spitted skilfully, Then roasted carefully and slipped them off."
"I neither egged thee nor colloped thee. If I had egged thee, though mights yet chese."
"There was one fine bullock already butchered and being colloped by the cooking fires of the Burns and several sheep on the way to the same fate."

Etymology

Late Middle English, of North Germanic origin, from Swedish kalops (“stewed meat”), from Old Swedish kollops (“slices of beef stew”). Cognate to German Klops (“dish of meat made tender by beating”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: -, kalops, kollops

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ˈkɒləp/

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

collops (plural) collops (present, singular) colloping (participle, present) colloped (participle, past) colloped (past)

Derived Forms

colloped

Phrases

Collop Monday Scotch collops

Homonyms

call-up

Rhymes With

scallop wallop dollop trollope trollop codswallop jollop lollop

Questions

How do you pronounce collop?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɒləp/.
What does collop mean?: A slice of meat.
Where does collop come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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