Savour vs Sav - What's the difference?
savour | sav |
The specific taste or smell of something.
*1898 , , (Moonfleet), Ch.5:
*:He held out to me a bowl of steaming broth, that filled the room with a savour sweeter, ten thousand times, to me than every rose and lily of the world; yet would not let me drink it at a gulp, but made me sip it with a spoon like any baby.
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour .
A distinctive sensation.
*(Richard Baxter) (1615-1691)
*:Why is not my life a continual joy, and the savour of heaven perpetually upon my spirit?
Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent.
*(George Herbert) (1593-1633)
*:beyond my savour
to possess a particular taste or smell, or a distinctive quality.
* Shakespeare
* Addison
* Rev. Joseph Bellamy
to appreciate, enjoy or relish something.
(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 nouns the difference between savour and sav
is that savour is the specific taste or smell of something while sav is a saveloy.As a verb savour
is to possess a particular taste or smell, or a distinctive quality.As an adjective sav is
a shorter form of savage|lang=en (unpleasant or unfair).savour
English
Alternative forms
* savor (chiefly US)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- This savours not much of distraction.
- I have rejected everything that savours of party.
- Begone, thou impudent wretch, to hell, thy proper place: thou art a despiser of my glorious majesty, and your frame of spirit savours of blasphemy.
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.
