Noun: collop
| Singular | collop |
| Plural | collops |
Sample Sentences
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"It was till lately believed by the ploughmen of Clydesdale, that if they repeated the rhyme
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Fairy, fairy, bake me a bannock and roast me a collop,
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And I'll gie ye a spurtle off my gadend!
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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." [1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 353:]
Nouns inflected like collop
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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”). See: Swedish Nouns '
kalops', German Nouns '
Klops'.
Verbs referencing "collop"
German Nouns
Klops.