San vs Sav - What's the difference?
san | sav |
A letter of the Archaic Greek alphabet (uppercase ) that came after pi and before qoppa.
(dated, informal) A sanatorium.
* 1940 , Enid Blyton, The Naughtiest Girl in the School
* 2005 , Dan Soucoup, ?Richard Thorne McCully, McCully's New Brunswick (page 137)
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) A saveloy.
* 1982 , , NZ, Predicament , The Dunmore Press,
* 2007 , Gilda O'Neill, Rough Justice , William Heinemann, UK,
* 2008 , Deborah Penrith, Live & Work in Australia , Crimson Publishing, UK,
As an adjective san
is healthy.As a noun sav is
seam.san
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)See also
*Etymology 2
sanatoriumNoun
(en noun)- "Haven't you heard?" said Belinda. "Joan's ill! She'd got a high temperature, and she's in bed in the San ."
- River Glade Sanatorium, River Glade, June 25, 1931. The "San " at River Glade with the Petitcodiac River in the background.
Anagrams
* * * ----sav
English
Etymology 1
Shortening of saveloy.Noun
(en noun)page 68,
- “Well, I don?t know what you?ll think. I?m only saying this to show what you?ve all done for me, but last Christmas dinner I had cold savs .”
- There was silence and then Mervyn added with a break in his voice, “Saveloys .”
page 397,
- ‘Your turn today, Lil,’ he said. ‘Fish and chips for me. No, wait, I?ll have savs , faggots and pease pudding.’
page 176,
- The menu of the average fish and chip shop will also offerbattered savs /Pluto pups (these are basically saveloy sausages with a fried batter on a stick, dipped in tomato ketchup) as well as a choice of homemade marinated pickles.