linguiça

[ ling-gwee-suh; Portuguese lin-gwee-sah, -suh ]

noun

1. a highly spiced Portuguese garlic sausage.

Word History and Origins

Origin of linguiça¹

First recorded in 1950–55; from Portuguese; further origin uncertain

Example Sentences

But on a recent weekend, twinkling white lights stretched over Thornton’s main intersection, the scent of linguica sausage clung to the cool autumn air and Portuguese flags flew proudly above throngs of visitors pouring into the streets.

From Los Angeles Times

At the Cape Verdean restaurant Izzy’s, a heaping can’t-eat-fast-enough breakfast of cachupa rafugado, scrambled eggs and linguiça costs $13.

From New York Times

Heritage Foods now offers linguiça from the sausage maker the Mayor, in Richmond, Va. The signature Portuguese sausage harbors the paprika spice of chorizo but with the fire dampened, and a finer texture, but it brings on the garlic like kielbasa.

From New York Times

The Mayor Linguiça from Heritage Foods, $65 for three 12-ounce packages of two sausages each, heritagefoods.com.

From New York Times

Galinha has Portuguese barbecue with chicken and linguiça sausage seasoned with piri-piri sauce.

From New York Times