savoloy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "Savoloys. TAKE ſix pounds of young pork, free it from bone and ſkin, and ſalt it with one ounce of ſalt-petre, and a pound of common ſalt, for two days; [...]"
- "GEORGE PUCILL was indicted for stealing, on the 13th of April 15 savoloys, value 1s. 3d.; and ¾lb. tripe, value 2d., the goods of George Anderson, his master. George Anderson. [...] I saw some savoloys projecting from a hole in his smock-frock—I then found fifteen more round his body and over his arms— [...] Thomas Arnold (police constable H. 127) I took the prisoner, and found the tripe and savoloys—he said he was going to take them home for his supper. (The prisoner received a good character, and the prosecutor promised still to employ him.)"
- "When a local butcher gave her a party savoloy (a highly "treated" sausage) she became so hyperactive for the next six hours, she threw tantrum after tantrum."
- "Sausages, savoloy, meat, black puddings, pies; Aboukheir and Kilbertus (1974)."
- "The pork butchers had much more to do with meat preparation, as Wall & Garland’s advertisement of 1793 indicated when they opened their Westgate Street shop, listing fresh pork, corned pork, pork sausages, beef sausages, ‘bolognas’, ‘savoloys’, hams and tongues."