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

I’m not going to tell you all my secrets, but for a meat sauce it’s usually a mixture of different meats like ground beef and maybe with some type of sausage.

From Los Angeles Times

Other new menu items include Starbuck’s Gingerbread Cream Cold Foam, a blend of gingerbread flavors with vanilla sweet cream; Turkey Sage Danish, a savory pastry filled with turkey sausage and bechamel sauce; Dark Toffee Bundt, a personal-sized, toffee-flavored Bundt cake; Penguin Cookie, a shortbread cookie iced with a penguin design; and Snowman Cake Pop, a vanilla-flavored cake mixed with buttercream and dipped in a white chocolate icing.

From Salon

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

The two would go on to co-star in numerous films, including "This Is The End," "Sausage Party," "The Interview" and "The Disaster Artist."

From Salon

We’re still going to eat the sausage.

From Salon

Related Words

• bratwurst