slavink

Dutch

Etymology

From sla (“lettuce”) +‎ vink (“chaffinch”), so coined by butcher Ton Spoelder in 1962, as he advertised the dish as going well with lettuce. The word vink had been used before in names of meat dishes, such as in blinde vink.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈslaːˌvɪŋk/
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  • Hyphenation: sla‧vink

Noun

slavink m (plural slavinken, diminutive slavinkje n)

  1. A dish consisting of meat wrapped in bacon

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