A seasoned red pork sausage, dried and smoked and sold ready to eat.
〈英〉萨维罗干熏猪肉肠
Example sentencesExamples
With yer chips you can have fish, pies, sausages, saveloy - or best of all, the aforementioned sausages coated in a crispy batter and then fried.
From now on, you'll have to make do with a saveloy 'n' chips with mushy peas.
The store in the larger camps sold groceries, the baker brought bread twice a week, a truck called with fruit and vegetables for sale, and the butcher called bringing sausages galore and in one camp giving each child a saveloy.
Growing up in a Greek takeaway in Birmingham might not have been something you bragged about, says Peter, but the smell of cod, saveloys and kebabs was the spur to getting a university education
Parking my car, I gaze over the bleak wooded Borderlands, and munch a pink saveloy.
It's position, parked up on the verge by the main arterial route over to Brighton indicates that it has not been left, engine running, whilst its owner nips into the chippy for a saveloy.
Children gathered there every Friday night to eat bread and saveloys and drink billy tea from water boiled on the fire.
Origin
Mid 19th century: alteration of obsolete French cervelat, from Italian cervellata; compare with cervelat.