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COLLOP

Definition: COLLOP

COLLOP

Noun

1. A part or piece of anything; a portion.

2. A small slice of meat; a piece of flesh.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "COLLOP" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1592. (references)

Etymology: Collop \Col"lop\, noun. [Of uncertain origin; compare to Old French colp blow, stroke, piece, French coup, from the Latin expression colophus buffet, cuff] [Written also colp.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: COLLOP

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Part

Piece, lump, bit cut, cutting; chip, chunk, collop, slice, scale; lamina; small part; morsel, particle; (smallness); installment, dividend; share; (allotment).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: COLLOP

English words defined with "COLLOP": ColpTucket. (references)

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Modern Translation: COLLOP

Language Translations for "COLLOP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

escalope. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

natúrszelet (collop of veal). (various references)

   

Manx

  

slissag (cutting, rasher, round of bread, shaving, slice). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ollopcay

   

Romanian

  

bucatã de carne (joint). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

colag (a small steak or collop), staoig (a collop). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

köttskiva (cutlet). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kızartmalık ince et dilimi, et dilimi (escalope). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

lát thịt mỏng. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: COLLOP

Derivations

Words beginning with "COLLOP": collops. (additional references)

Words ending with "COLLOP": scollop. (additional references)

Words containing "COLLOP": scolloped, scolloping, scollops. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "COLLOP"

Words rhyming with "COLLOP" (pronounced 'Col"lop'): Dallop, Escallop, lollop, Orlop, Shallop, trollop. (additional references)

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Anagrams: COLLOP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-l-l-o-o-p"

-2 letters: clop, cool, coop, loco, loop, poco, poll, polo, pool.

-3 letters: col, coo, cop, loo, lop, pol.

-4 letters: lo, op.

 Words containing the letters "c-l-l-o-o-p"
 

+1 letter: collops, pollock, scollop.

 

+2 letters: clodpole, clodpoll, pollocks, scollops.

 

+3 letters: clodpoles, clodpolls, collotype, photocell, scolloped.

 

+4 letters: allophonic, allotropic, codswallop, coleoptile, collotypes, corporally, photocells, polyclonal, scolloping.

 

+5 letters: allomorphic, chlorophyll, chloroplast, codswallops, coleoptiles, comptroller, corporeally, palynologic, pedological, penological, polyalcohol, pomological, postcollege, precolonial, protocolled, toploftical, topological, typological.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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