sausage

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English[edit]

Russian sausage making

Etymology[edit]

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

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sausage (countable and uncountable, plural sausages)

  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; a length of this food.
  2. A sausage-shaped thing.
  3. (vulgar slang) Penis.
  4. (informal) A term of endearment.
    my little sausage
    • 2019, Paullina Simons, Inexpressible Island (End of Forever):
      “Algernon, you silly sausage. Now you want to marry me? Don't you remember we were already engaged to be married, and then I broke it off with you?”
  5. (military, archaic) A saucisse.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of 1881, Thomas Wilhelm, "A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer" to this entry?)

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sausage (third-person singular simple present sausages, present participle sausaging, simple past and past participle sausaged)

  1. (engineering) To form a sausage-like shape, with a non-uniform cross section.

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