Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Finely chopped and seasoned meat, especially pork, usually stuffed into a prepared animal intestine or other casing and cooked or cured.
- noun A small cylinder-shaped serving of this meat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An article of food, consisting usually of chopped or minced meat, as pork, beef, or veal, seasoned with sage, pepper, salt, etc., and stuffed into properly cleaned entrails of the ox, sheep, or pig, tied or constricted at short intervals. When sausages are made on an extensive scale the meat is minced and stuffed into the intestines by machinery.
- noun In milit. mining, a canvas tube filled with powder.
- noun plural A commercial name for crude rubber in finger- or sausage-shaped pieces. See
rubber , 3.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An article of food consisting of meat (esp. pork) minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal.
- noun A saucisson. See
Saucisson .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun 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.
- noun A sausage-shaped thing.
- noun colloquial
Penis . - noun A term of
endearment .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings
- noun a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The word sausage comes from the Latin for “salt,” and names a mixture of chopped meat and salt stuffed into an edible tube.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The word sausage comes from the Latin for “salt,” and names a mixture of chopped meat and salt stuffed into an edible tube.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The only city I've found that competes with it in sausage is Milwaukee.
Homecoming grrm 2010
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Whatever, almost any plain sausage is preferable to the hideous flavour pairings beloved of the modern butcher.
A New Leicestershire Landmark Peter Ashley 2008
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The Elgin sausage is great, but I'll have to check out the place in Schulenberg.
Home sweet (and savory) home! | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007
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Indeed, the word sausage derives from the Latin for salt.
Ratio Michael Ruhlman 2009
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This was an audience which would have potentially weed itself at mention of the word "sausage", as ever-punchable guest judge Jimmy Tarbuck knows.
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The extent that you can show and share over a sustained period of time where I want to go - at least the public had an opportunity to question you eye to eye, look you in the face before you get to what I call the sausage making process.
unknown title 2009
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Its store-made sausage is fantastic broiled and stuffed into a pita with salad and hummus.
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Furthermore, once the first sausage is made this way, those that follow from the same batch are not going to be any better.
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“I was never actually on the sausage” – rhyming slang for dole – “as this is what I do, this is my job, and sometimes I’m doing better business than others.
‘A billion listens? Is that a lot?’ John Cooper Clarke on penning possibly the world’s favourite poem Ben Beaumont-Thomas 2023
chained_bear commented on the word sausage
see also--when good sausages get together to hang out--sausage fest
February 18, 2007
seanahan commented on the word sausage
The best pizza topping ever.
February 18, 2007
john commented on the word sausage
See also makkara.
November 16, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word sausage
A friend of mine who likes sn- words like snout, snore, sniffle, and snort, likes to call sausages "snausages" as a nod to the pork content of same.
September 17, 2009
Telofy commented on the word sausage
I wonder if snausages are tinny.
September 17, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word sausage
"Another common food seldom found at the tables of the wealthy was sausage or any meat flavored and made less perishable by means of salting, drying, smoking, or pickling. Even if spices had been used to preserve meat (which they were not), the resulting products, today considered delicacies, would have been regarded as hopelessly rustic or at best middle class. Although a tremendous amount of attention is now given to various Iberian, Italian, and German hams like jamon jabugo, Bundnerfleisch, or prosciutto, these were originally designed to save meat over winter and so not favored by those with the resources to serve fresher meat during the normally hard months. Sausages were thought of as typical of prosperous urban nobodies (merchants and the like), or of affluent peasants. It seems that in every late-medieval or Renaissance woodcut depicting a peasant wedding (and there are many), the guests are gobbling up sausages while a dog is running off with a string of them snatched from a table."
Paul Freedman, Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination (New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2008), 41.
This last image is particularly interesting to me since it also appears in many silent/B&W films and in cartoons.
Also more about peasant food in comment on dairy and vegetables.
November 27, 2017
natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word sausage
Sausage, a portmanteau of <i>sow</i> and <i>sage</i>, from the meat of a sow (swine) originally spiced with sage.
February 28, 2020