Meaning of Saveloy | Babel Free

Definitions

A seasoned and smoked pork sausage, normally purchased ready-cooked.

Australia, British, New-Zealand

Equivalents

Examples

“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; [...]”

“Savaloys, or Cervelas. [...] Fill⟳ the gut, and bake the savaloys for half an hour in a moderate oven.”

“When I dined regularly and handsomely, I had a saveloy and a penny-loaf, or a fourpenny plate of red beef from a cook's shop⟳; [...]”

“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.)”

“"She always has a savaloy for supper, and I'm going to fetch⟳ it, and the beer." [...] [H]e walked arm-in-arm with the golden-tressed creature who now carried the savaloy for her mother in a piece of old newspaper!”

“Saveloys! After all, there's nothing like⟳ saveloys, is there? Talk⟳ about your partridge, your venison, and your 'are, why, I've tasted saveloys as 'ud give⟳ 'em all a start⟳ if it came to a question⟳ of game.”

“My dinner consists in rotation of one third of a pound of bacon, cooked over the gas (twopence halfpenny), or two saveloys (twopence), or two pieces of fried fish⟳ (twopence), or a quarter of an eightpenny tin of Chicago beef (twopence). Any one of these, with a due allowance of bread and water, makes a most substantial meal.”

“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.”

“[...] I used to go in the early mornings to shoo the hens from their nests to get⟳ the brown eggs with the dark speckles that the cook⟳ would fry with saveloy sausages which my grandmother had ordered while the eggs were still warm [...]”

“If you pushed a little further up through the crowd you would see⟳, on the other side, an old bloke with gingery hair who wore a long, thin, ochre-coloured coat, sitting there all day on a high wooden stool shouting: ‘Savaloys! Savaloys! Savaloys!’”

“He's free, you idiot, Sheephead Morton said, parting his own⟳ wet⟳ hair with his saveloy fingers and putting his slouch hat back on.”

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