sausage
English

Russian sausage making
Etymology
From late Middle English sausige, from Anglo-Norman saussiche (compare Norman saûciche), from Late Latin salsīcia (compare Spanish salchicha, Italian salsiccia), neuter plural of salsīcius (“seasoned with salt”), derivative of Latin salsus (“salted”), from sal (“salt”). More at salt.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɔsɪd͡ʒ/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈsɑsɪd͡ʒ/
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Noun
sausage (countable and uncountable, plural sausages)
- A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a section of the animal's intestine, or in a similarly cylindrical shaped synthetic casing; a length of this food.
- A sausage-shaped thing.
- (vulgar slang) Penis.
- A term of endearment.
- my little sausage
- Silly sausage.
- (military, archaic) A saucisse.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of 1881, Thomas Wilhelm, "A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer" to this entry?)
Hyponyms
- andouille
- baloney
- banger
- black pudding
- blood pudding
- blood sausage
- boerewors
- bologna
- boudin
- bratwurst
- Braunschweiger
- chipolata
- chorizo
- cocktail frank
- cocktail frankfurt
- cocktail sav
- cocktail savaloy
- cocktail wiener
- Cumberland sausage
- farmer's sausage
- frank
- frankfurt
- frankfurter
- garlic sausage
- hot dog sausage
- kielbasa
- knackwurst
- knockwurst
- kubasa
- lamb sausage
- linguica
- liver sausage
- liverwurst
- merguez
- mortadella
- pepperoni
- Polish sausage
- polony
- Portuguese sausage
- salami
- sav
- saveloy
- smokie
- snag
- Vienna sausage
- white pudding
- wiener
- wienerwurst
- wors
- wurst
Related terms
Translations
a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing
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small, uncooked
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sausage-shaped thing
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Verb
sausage (third-person singular simple present sausages, present participle sausaging, simple past and past participle sausaged)
- (engineering) To form a sausage-like shape, with a non-uniform cross section.
Further reading
- List of sausages at Wikipedia
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