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sausage

[ saw-sijor, especially British, 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. not a sausage
    nothing at all
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈsausage-ˌlike, adjective
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  • sausage·like adjective
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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
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sausage1

C15: from Old Norman French saussiche, from Late Latin salsīcia, from Latin salsus salted; see sauce
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Example Sentences

You can find grilled dishes like chorizo sausages and steak, topped with traditional chimichurri sauce.

From Ozy

Because the sausages were already safely cooked through in the pot, all you’re looking for is a browned, crispy exterior.

Hand one to each person, so they can cook their own sausage themselves.

Carefully insert the sharpened end of a stick into one end of a sausage until it is securely impaled.

I was a vegetarian at the time so no sausage or bacon, but those were there, too.

From Eater

Sage and sausage patty came next, served between cumin scented Buttermilk biscuits and smothered in a black pepper country gravy.

Lynchburg is a six-month-old German sausage and ale house in the heart of Panama's San Francisco neighborhood.

Poke center of Italian sausages with chopstick to make well, fill with chocolate syrup and twist the open end of the sausage.

Nestlé, the Swiss owner of sausage-making subsidiary Herta, told The Daily Beast they would launch an appeal.

For over a decade, pork industry leaders held secret meetings to raise the price of sausage—but then someone squealed.

In Tiefurt we partook of a magnificent collation consisting of a mug of beer, brown bread and sausage!

They produced pumpernickel from one cupboard, and rye-bread and sausage from another, and all began to talk again and eat.

The central dish was a pork-pie, flanked by savory little patties of sausage.

There were geraniums on its sill, and a red sausage filled with sand kept out the draught when it was closed.

Divide into small sausage shapes, dip each in batter, fry a pale golden colour and serve very hot, garnished with crisped parsley.

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