blood sausage

American  

noun

1. a dark sausage with a high content of blood, especially one made with diced pork fat, pork blood, chopped onion, etc., usually stuffed in casings and cooked by broiling, frying, or boiling.

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blood sausage British  

noun

1. Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): black pudding.  a kind of black sausage made from minced pork fat, pig's blood, and other ingredients

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Etymology

Origin of blood sausage

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

Angel Cabrera in 2010 introduced an Argentine asado, well-salted cuts of meat including short ribs, blood sausage and sweetbreads cooked over an open flame.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2025

Smoked pork and blood sausage honour the Rukai's hunting culture on her menu.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2024

This is a stew popular in Madrid which includes blood sausage and some very unfortunate looking and smelling tripe.

From Salon • Sep. 7, 2023

Many visitors go to the third volcano, Furnas, to soak in murky iron-rich thermal springs and eat cozido das Furnas, a mix of blood sausage, pigs’ ears and other goodies cooked in steaming fumaroles.

From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2022

At five I put on the potatoes, and Mother gave me some blood sausage to take to Peter.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank