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

Derived Forms

• ˈsausage-ˌlike, adjective

Other Words From

• sausage·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

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

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

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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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Related Words

• bratwurst