sausage

American  

[saw-sij, sos-ij] / ˈsɔ sɪdʒ, ˈsɒs ɪdʒ /

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.

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sausage British  

/ 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

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Other Word Forms

• sausage-like adjective
• sausagelike adjective

Etymology

Origin of sausage

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

Compare meaning

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Example Sentences

The menu feels comfortingly familiar—smoked brisket, wings, pulled pork, sausage, and all the sides you’d expect—but it’s the sauces that really deliver the flavors Apocalypse is celebrating.

From Salon

Once I am feeling hungry again, I discover there is little food on the ship, aside from moldy bread and the pork sausages we can’t eat.

From Literature

One cautioned that her food contribution—some sausages—was still frozen.

From The Wall Street Journal

"I was on a camping trip in Wales, in Pembrokeshire, and I was cooking sausage and beans on a little gas stove," she said.

From BBC

The meatpacking giant Tyson Foods piled on last year, leading to changes to products such as frozen tenders and Jimmy Dean sausage, egg and cheese croissant breakfast sandwiches.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• bratwurst