aspic

English

Wikipedia

Noun

aspic (plural aspics)

1. a dish in which ingredients are set into a gelatine, jelly-like substance made from a meat stock or consommé.
2. (obsolete) an asp, a small venomous snake of Egypt.
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra:

     This is an aspic's trail: and these fig-leaves / Have slime upon them, such as the aspic leaves.

Translations

dish

Bulgarian: желе (bg) (želé) n., пача (bg) (pača) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 肉凍 (zh), 肉冻 (zh) (ròudòng) Czech: huspenina (cs) f., sulc (cs) m. Estonian: sült (et) Finnish: hyydytetty ~ (fi) (adjective + the main ingredient) , (meat jelly) lihahyytelö (fi) French: aspic (fr) m. German: Sülze (de) f., Aspik (de) m. and n. Hungarian: kocsonya (hu)

Japanese: アスピック (ja) (asupikku) Polish: chołodeć (pl) m., studeneć (pl) m. Russian: холодец (ru) (xolodéc) m., студень (ru) (stúden’) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пихтије (sh) f. pl., пиктије (sh) f. pl., хладетина (sh) f. Roman: pihtije (sh) f. pl., piktije (sh) f. pl., hladetina (sh) f. Spanish: áspic (es) m. Swedish: aladåb (sv) c. Ukrainian: холодець (uk) (xolodéc’) m.

Adjective

aspic (not comparable)

1. aspish; relating to an asp, a small venomous snake of Egypt.
   • 1923, Wallace Stevens, "In the Carolinas," Harmonium, Faber and Faber (2001), ISBN 978-0571207794, page 3,

     Timeless mother, / How is it that your aspic nipples / For once vent honey?

Anagrams

• pacis, picas, Spica, spica

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Italian

Etymology

French

Noun

aspic m. inv.

1. aspic

Anagrams

• cispa
• pasci
• scapi
• spica