aspic

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Noun

aspic with eggs

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.

See also

• brawn
• head cheese

Translations

dish

• Bulgarian: желе (bg) (želé) n, пача (bg) (pača) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肉凍 (cmn), 肉冻 (cmn) (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) (stúdenʹ) 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, queso de cabeza (es) m
• Swedish: aladåb (sv) c
• Ukrainian: холодець (uk) (xolodécʹ) 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 (invariable)

1. aspic

Anagrams

• cispa
• pasci
• scapi
• spica