collop meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

collop

noun

UK /ˈkɒləp/

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”).

Northern England A slice of meat.

"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."1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 353:

Obsolete A slice of bacon, a rasher.

A roll or fold of flesh on the body.

A small piece, portion, or slice of something.

Derived terms: colloped, Collop Monday, Scotch collops

collop

verb

To cut into collops (thin slices)

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.1773, Philosophical Transactions, Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies and Labours of the Ingenious in many Considerable Parts of the World, page 385:
They colloped it, and spitted skilfully, Then roasted carefully and slipped them off.1874, Homer (J.B. Rose, translator), Homer's Iliad. Translated [into English Blank Verse] by J. B. Rose, page 433:

2 more examples

I neither egged thee nor colloped thee. If I had egged thee, though mights yet chese.1979, Lester Barber, Misogonus: Edited with an Introduction:
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.2016, P.F. Chisholm, A Chorus of Innocents: