What does "sausage" mean?
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.
Sausage
/ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ/ noun, verb, slang
noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: 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.
- Grammar: sausage is listed as noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: balloon, baloney, banger, bangers.
- Useful contrasts: meatless product, vegetarian sausage.
- Usage evidence: Would you like bacon or sausage?
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 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. countable, uncountable
- 2 a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon wordnet
- 3 An individual item of this food. countable, uncountable
""When frying sausages," remarked Cripps, who seemed to regard that occupation as a cult, "it is advisable to perforate the outer skin with a fork.""
- 4 highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings wordnet
- 5 A sausage-shaped thing. countable, uncountable
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- 6 A penis. countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar
- 7 A term of endearment. countable, informal, uncountable
"my little sausage"
- 8 A saucisse. archaic, countable, uncountable
- 9 A dachshund; sausage dog. countable, uncountable
- 10 Ellipsis of sausage roll (“the dole; unemployment”). abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, slang, uncountable
"I got fired and I'm back on the sausage again."
Verb
- 1 To squeeze tightly into (something) in a rolled or sausage-like form. intransitive
"He leapt to his feet, carefully sausaged his screwdrivers in a roll beneath his arm and turned to reach into the box."
- 2 To squeeze (something) into something tightly fitting. transitive
"He is sausaged into several overcoats and wears a brown macintosh under which he holds a roll of parchment."
- 3 To fit snugly into. transitive, with-on
"Dressing in a flash, she sausaged on her skinny jeans and sleeveless camo top with peek-a-boo sides for boob aficionados."
- 4 To make into sausage. transitive
"There is no escaping the Limerick pig. In single file, in battalions, as solitary scout, alive or dead, baconed and sausaged, he dominates the town."
- 5 To make sausage-like, especially to give the appearance of barely fitting into the casing or skin. transitive
"Blood and gravity had sausaged her legs and feet, fattening them into white-stocking loaves that dangled eighteen inches above her neatly folded nurse’s uniform on the floor."
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- 6 To form a sausage-like shape, with a non-uniform cross section.
Antonyms
meatless productvegetarian sausage
Example
"Would you like bacon or sausage?"
Common questions
What is a synonym for "sausage"?
Common synonyms include: balloon, baloney, banger, bangers, black pudding, blimp.
How do you use "sausage" in a sentence?
Would you like bacon or sausage?
How do you pronounce "sausage"?
Pronounced /ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ/.
Etymology
From late Middle English sawsiche, from Anglo-Norman sausiche (compare Norman saûciche), from Late Latin salsīcia (compare Sicilian sausizza, Spanish salchicha, Italian salsiccia), feminine of salsīcius (“seasoned with salt”), derivative of Latin salsus (“salted”), from sal (“salt”). More at salt. Doublet of saucisse. See also Sicilian sausizza. Displaced native Old English mearh.