Sov vs Sav - What's the difference?
sov | sav |
(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 initialism sov
is subject-object-verb: a language is sov if a typical sentence has subject, followed by object, followed by verb.As a noun sav is
seam.sov
English
Synonyms
* (pound sterling) ** (standard English) pound, pound sterling ** (slang) nicker, quidAnagrams
* * * * * ----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.