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

Masino knew Cracker Barrel’s loyal customers were sensitive to changes, even over things as small as breakfast sausage options.

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It calculates that weekly wages have grown "by no more than the price of a Gregg's sausage roll", or £1.50, over the past 11 months.

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Beyond Meat Inc. shares more than doubled in price in their first day of trading Thursday as the El Segundo maker of plant-based burgers and sausages went public with a splash.

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If they can get those two wins within the next three games, they won’t have to return to Milwaukee, the land of the great sausage race, and of the polka dancers atop the dugout.

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I flirted briefly with making yogurt in my rice cooker before deciding to preserve a shred of sanity, only to immediately sacrifice it again by adding biscuits and sausage gravy.

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Related Words

• bratwurst