sausage

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English

Russian sausage making

Etymology

From late Middle English sausige, from Anglo-Norman saussiche (compare Jèrriais 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

• (UK) IPA: /ˈsɒsɪdʒ/

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Noun

sausage (plural sausages)

1. A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a cylindrical casing. Also a length of sausage, or an example of a sausage.
2. A sausage-shaped thing.
3. (colloquial) Penis.
4. A term of endearment

   my little sausage

   Silly sausage.

Derived terms

blood sausage Cumberland sausage farmer’s sausage garlic sausage hot dog sausage

lamb sausage liver sausage Polish sausage sausage dog sausage fest sausage meat

sausage party sausage roll sausage tree sausage meat Vienna sausage

Translations

for slicing

Afrikaans: wors (af) Albanian: suxhur (sq), sallam (sq) Arabic: سجق (ar) (sújuq) m. Morocco: سوسيس (sūsīs) Armenian: երշիկ (hy) (eršik) Belarusian: каўбаса (be) (kaŭbasá) f. Bosnian: kobasica (bs) f. Bulgarian: наденица (bg) (nadenica) f. Catalan: salsitxa (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 香腸 (zh), 香肠 (zh) (xiāngcháng) Croatian: kobasica (hr) f. Czech: klobása (cs) f. Danish: pølse (da) c. Dutch: worst (nl) m. Finnish: makkara (fi) French: saucisse (fr) f. German: Wurst (de) f. Greek: σαλάμι (el) (salámi) n. Greenlandic: immigaq (kl) Hindi: सॉसेज (hi) (maumoja) Hungarian: kolbász (hu) Ido: sociso (io) Irish: ispín m. Italian: salame (it) m., salume (it) m., insaccato (it) m. Japanese: ソーセージ (ja) (sōsēji) Korean: 소시지 (ko) (sosiji)

Latin: salsicia (la) Latvian: desa (lv) f. Luxembourgish: Zoossiss (lb) f. Macedonian: колбас (mk) (kolbas) m. Maltese: salami m., supresatt m. Navajo: bisóodi bitsįʼ yikʼánígíí Northern Sami: márfi Norwegian: pølse (no) c. Persian: سوسیس (fa) (sosis) Polish: kiełbasa (pl) f. Portuguese: salsicha (pt) f., lingüiça (pt) f. Romanian: cârnat (ro) m. Russian: колбаса (ru) (kolbasá) f., сосиска (ru) f. (small sausage) Scottish Gaelic: isbean m. Serbian: Cyrillic: кобасица f. Roman: kobasica f. Skolt Sami: mää´rf Slovak: klobása (sk) f. Slovene: klobasa (sl) f. Sotho: boroso (st) Spanish: embutido (es) m., salchicha (es) f., salchichón (es) m. Swedish: korv (sv) c. Turkish: sosis (tr) Ukrainian: ковбаса (uk) (kovbasá) West Frisian: woarst

small, uncooked

Afrikaans: wors (af) Armenian: նրբերշիկ (hy) (nrberšik), (colloquial) սասիսկի (hy) (sasiski) Belarusian: сасіска (be) (sasíska) f. Bosnian: kobasica (bs) f. Catalan: salsitxa (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 腸兒 (zh), 肠儿 (zh) (chángr) Croatian: kobasica (hr) f. Czech: párek (cs) m., vuřt (cs) m. Dutch: worst (nl) m. Finnish: makkara (fi) French: saucisson (fr) m. German: Würstchen (de) n., Wurst (de) f. Greek: λουκάνικο (el) (loukániko) n. Irish: ispín m. Italian: salsiccia (it) f.

Japanese: ソーセージ (ja) (sōsēji), 腸詰め (ja) (ちょうずめ, chōzume) Macedonian: колбас (mk) (kolbas) m. Maltese: zalzett m. Norwegian: pølse (no) c., sosiss (no) m. Polish: kiełbaska (pl) f. Russian: сосиска (ru) (sosíska) f., (larger) сарделька (ru) (sardɛ́l’ka) f. Scottish Gaelic: isbean m. Serbian: Cyrillic: кобасица f. Roman: kobasica f. Sotho: boroso (st) Spanish: salchicha (es) f. Turkish: sosis (tr) Ukrainian: сосиска (uk) (sosýska) West Frisian: woarst

sausage-shaped thing

Finnish: makkara (fi) Greek: λουκάνικο (el) (loukániko) n.

Spanish: salchicha (es) f.

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Esperanto: kolbaso Georgian: ძეხვი Romanian: cârnat m. Spanish: embutido m., chorizo

See also

allantois andouille baloney banger black pudding blood pudding boerewors boerie bologna boudin bratwurst Braunschweiger cervelat chipolata chorizo cocktail frank cocktail frankfurt

cocktail sav cocktail savaloy cocktail wiener frank frankfurt frankfurter haggis kielbasa kishka, kishke knackwurst knockwurst kubasa linguica liverwurst merguez

mortadella pepperoni polony Portuguese sausage pudding salami sav saveloy smokie snag toad-in-the-hole white pudding wiener wienerwurst wurst

External links

• List of sausages at Wikipedia

Anagrams

• assuage