sausage

[saw-sij, sos-ij]

noun

1. minced pork, beef, or other meats, often combined, together with various added ingredients and seasonings, usually stuffed into a prepared intestine or other casing and often made in links.

2. Aeronautics.,  a sausage-shaped observation balloon, formerly used in warfare.

sausage

/ ˈsɒsɪdʒ /

noun

1. finely minced meat, esp pork or beef, mixed with fat, cereal or bread, and seasonings ( sausage meat ), and packed into a tube-shaped animal intestine or synthetic casing

2. an object shaped like a sausage

3. informal,  aeronautics a captive balloon shaped like a sausage

4. nothing at all

Other Word Forms

• sausagelike adjective
• sausage-like adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of sausage¹

1400–50; late Middle English sausige < dialectal Old French sausiche < Late Latin salsīcia, neuter plural of salsīcius seasoned with salt, derivative of Latin salsus salted. See sauce, -itious

Word History and Origins

Origin of sausage¹

C15: from Old Norman French saussiche, from Late Latin salsīcia, from Latin salsus salted; see _sauce

Example Sentences

They are weird, bald, subterranean rodents that look like sausages with teeth, and they have just revealed a genetic secret to long life.

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F&F’s tender, pillowy pies come in variations like hot sausage and brown-butter sage, and a clam pizza with fresh lemon and red chile flakes.

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"A sausage is a sausage. Sausage is not vegan," he said recently.

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It will be the third time this year that the sausage roll maker has raised prices, mirroring a wider trend on the UK high street.

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The menu includes tabletop grills piled high with grilled short ribs, flap meat, sausage, beef sweetbreads, black sausage, and other deliciousness.

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