rollmops

rollmops

1. plural of rollmop

rollmops (plural rollmops)

1. Alternative form of rollmop.
   • 1914, Irvin S. Cobb, “The Combustible Captain of Vienna”, in Europe Revised‎^[1]:

     This guide was much addicted to indulgence of a peculiar form of twisted English and at odd moments given to the consumption of a delicacy of strictly Germanic origin, known in the language of the Teutons as a rollmops. A rollmops consists of a large dilled cucumber, with a pickled herring coiled round it ready to strike, in the design of the rattlesnake-and-pinetree flag of the Revolution, the motto in both instances being in effect: "Don't monkey with the buzz saw!"

   • 2001, Frank Stiffel, The Oxymoron Factor: Franek: Stranger in My Land, page 46:

     Father poured a shot of vodka for each of his guests and for himself, and each of them pierced a rollmops with a fork.

Borrowed from German Rollmops.

rollmops m (plural rollmops)

1. rollmop (food)

• “rollmops”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.