Collop

Word of the Day for Sunday, December 4, 2011

collop \KOL-uhp\, noun:

1. A small slice of meat.
2. A small slice, portion, or piece of anything.
3. A fold or roll of flesh on the body.

He took up a knife and fork, and collop after collop disappeared.
-- Allan Cunningham, Gowden Gibbie

There was cheesecake and spicecake, along with a most extraordinary dish, exactly like collops of bacon only sweet to the taste...
-- Maria McCann, As Meat Loves Salt

Collop is derived from the Middle English word colhoppe meaning “a dish of stewed meat.”

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