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sausage en · NOUN

Pronunciation

(US) audio
/ˈsæsɪd͡ʒ/ (obsolete)
/ˈsɔsɪd͡ʒ/ (General-American)
/ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
/ˈsɑsɪd͡ʒ/ (cot-caught-merger)
/ˈsɑːsɪd͡ʒ/ (obsolete)

Etymology

Etymology tree Anglo-Norman sausichebor. Middle English sawsiche English sausage 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.

Meanings

(countable, uncountable) 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) An individual item of this food.
- "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." 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 44:
(countable, uncountable) A sausage-shaped thing.
(countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar) A penis.
(countable, informal, uncountable) A term of endearment.
- “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?” 2019, Paullina Simons, Inexpressible Island (End of Forever):
- my little sausage
- There are loads of mazes, it's all really good fun and utterly addictive — so you should certainly consider adding this little sausage to your collection. 1991, Rich Pelley, "Tilt" (video game review) in Your Sinclair (issue 62, page 52)
(archaic, countable, uncountable) A saucisse.
(countable, uncountable) A dachshund; sausage dog.
(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, slang, uncountable) Ellipsis of sausage roll (“the dole; unemployment”).
alt of sausage roll
- I got fired and I'm back on the sausage again.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
sausages	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Translations (242)

tr salam (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · arz سجق (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ps ساسیج (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · la hillae (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · kl immigaq (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ru колбаса́ (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · fa-ira زیجَک (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · uz sosiska (individual item) · nl worst (individual item) · grc ἀλλᾶς (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · cv кӑлпасси (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ky чучук (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · wym wiyśt (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · enm podynge (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · io sociso (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · hy երշիկ (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · af wors (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ga ispín (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ast salchicha (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · izh kolbassi (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · mt salami (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · gl salchicha (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · vi xúc xích (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · it salsiccia (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ky казы (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · cmn 腸兒 /肠儿 (individual item) · la tuccētum (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · xwo ᡔᡇᡔᠠᡎ (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · sh коба̀сица (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ce йоьхь (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ky колбаса (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ota صوجوق (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · kmr sosîs (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · bo རྒྱུ་མ་བརྒྱངས་པ (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · uz kolbasa (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · nrf saûciche (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · km សាច់ក្រក (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · yue 腸仔 /肠仔 (individual item) · la farcīmen (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ru соси́ска (sausage-shaped thing) · khb ᦺᦉᧉ (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · mn ᠬᠢᠮ᠎ᠠ (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · id sosis (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · el λουκάνικο (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · nl worst (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · fa-ira کالْباس (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ka სოსისი (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · wuu 香腸 /香肠 (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · yo sọ́séèjì (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · gl chourizo (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · lo ໄສ້ອົ່ວ (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · fr saucisse (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ka კუპატი (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · cs párek (individual item) · fy woarst (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · es embutido (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · nv bisóodi bitsįʼ yikʼánígíí (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · fi makkara (individual item) · pdt Worscht (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ka ძეხვი (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · sh sudžuk (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · pt salsicha (individual item) · sh коба̀сица (individual item) · ru соси́ска (individual item) · de Wurst (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · pl kiełbasa (individual item) · kk шұжық (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · tpi sosis (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · fa-ira حسیبک (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · mk ко́лбас (individual item) · be сасі́ска (individual item) · ca salsitxa (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · fa-ira نکانک (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · mt zalzett (individual item) · eo kolbaso (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · fr saucisson (individual item) · tk kolbasa (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · kk шұжықша (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · sq sallam (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ar نَقَانِق (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ug كولباسا (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · sl klobasa (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · av бакь (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · st boroso (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · tg ҳасиб (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · mr सॉसेज (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · sh суџук (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · sk klobása (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · pt salsichão (sausage-shaped thing) · ru соси́ска (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · nan-hbl 煙腸 /烟肠 (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · pt salsicha (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · fa-ira سوسیس (individual item) · is pylsa (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · it salame (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ta தொத்திறைச்சி (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · haw naʻaukake (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · gd isbean (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · la botulus (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · es salchicha (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · az kolbasa (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · tr sucuk (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · pt linguiça (individual item) · lv desa (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · tr sosis (individual item) · nan-hbl 灌腸 /灌肠 (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · it salsiccia (individual item) · pt linguiça (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · br silzigenn (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · sq suxhuk (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ps پچ کولمه (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · hrx Worst (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · prs سَاسِچ (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ko 소시지 (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · hy նրբերշիկ (individual item) · sv korv (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · pap sosèshi (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · gl salchicha (individual item) · lt dešra (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · mk ко́лбас (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · rcf sosis (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · hu kolbász (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · arz سوسيس (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ca salsitxa (individual item) · tl batutay (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · hak 煙腸 /烟肠 (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · mt supresatt (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · be каўбаса́ (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · af wors (individual item) · it insaccato (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · nb pølse (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ruq cărnat (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · pl kiełbasa (sausage-shaped thing) · es salchicha (sausage-shaped thing) · th ไส้กรอก (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · sk párok (individual item) · mn хиам (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · enm sawcistre (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · da pølse (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · mn биж (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · kl pølse (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ar سُجُق (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · si සොසේජ් (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · mi tōtiti (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · is bjúga (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · mr सॉसेज (individual item) · sw soseji (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · uk ковбаса́ (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · fo pylsa (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ur ساسیج (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · mn ᠵᠠᠢᠳᠠᠰᠤ (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ko 칼파스 (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · sh kobàsica (individual item) · nb kurv (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · de Würstchen (individual item) · ary مرقاز (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ru сарде́лька (individual item) · yue 香腸 /香肠 (individual item) · fa-ira سوسیس (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · orv колбаса (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · eu txistorra (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ms sosej (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · dng чонзы (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · bg кренвирш (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · se márfi (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · nl worstje (individual item) · ky быжы (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · nb pølse (individual item) · gu સોસેજ (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · sh kobàsica (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · tg колбаса (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · my ဝက်အူချောင်း (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · nb korv (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · lv desa (individual item) · liv mȭka (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · tl suriso (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ja ソーセージ (individual item) · nrf sâociche (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · st boroso (individual item) · te సాసేజ్ (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · cs vuřt (individual item) · la salsicia (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · es salchicha (individual item) · nrf sauchisse (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · hak 灌腸 /灌肠 (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ja ソーセージ (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · mfe sosis (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · fi makkara (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · hi सॉसेज (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · grc φύσκη (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ary سوسيس (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · qu aycha t'iqi (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · tr kolbasa (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · el λουκάνικο (individual item) · ja カルパス (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · xal цуцг (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · gd isbean (individual item) · yue 香腸 /香肠 (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · gu ફુલમો (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · mh jo̧jej (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · grc χόλιξ (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · gl longaínza (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ro cârnat (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · bg на́деница (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · it salume (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · bn সসেজ (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · pms saussissa (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · mn ᠪᠢᠵᠢ (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · he נַקְנִיק (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · mn зайдас (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · el λουκάνικο (sausage-shaped thing) · cs klobása (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · sms määʹrf (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ang mearh (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · lo ອົ່ວ (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ru колбаса́ (sausage-shaped thing) · hy սասիսկի (individual item) · de Wurst (individual item) · uk соси́ска (individual item) · cmn 香腸 /香肠 (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · la tomāclum (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · lb Zoossiss (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · sah халбаһы (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ga ispín (individual item) · kn ಸಾಸೇಜ್ (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · tr sosis (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · fy woarst (individual item) · cu клъбаса (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · et vorst (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · yi וווּרשט (individual item) · nb sosiss (individual item) · mh jo̧jej (individual item) · pl kiełbasa (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · grc χορδή (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · fi makkara (sausage-shaped thing) · cy selsigen (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · es salchichón (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ja 腸詰め (individual item) · yi וווּרשט (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · tt казылык (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) · ka სოსისი (individual item) · izh makkara (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing)

sausage en · VERB

Pronunciation

(US) audio
/ˈsæsɪd͡ʒ/ (obsolete)
/ˈsɔsɪd͡ʒ/ (General-American)
/ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
/ˈsɑsɪd͡ʒ/ (cot-caught-merger)
/ˈsɑːsɪd͡ʒ/ (obsolete)

Etymology

Meanings

(transitive) To squeeze (something) tightly into in a rolled or sausage-like form.
- He leapt to his feet, carefully sausaged his screwdrivers in a roll beneath his arm and turned to reach into the box. 2009, Paul Kenyon, I Am Justice: A Journey Out of Africa, Preface Publishing, The Random House Group, →ISBN, page 92:
- Socks she sausaged like everyone else, but T-shirts she folded and stacked like a factory worker. 2015, Tyrone Geronimo Johnson, Welcome to Braggsville, William Morrow, →ISBN, pages 150–151:
- In the top drawer were neatly piled thermals and socks sausaged into pairs. 2012, Emily Perkins, The Forrests, Bloomsbury Circus, →ISBN, page 87:
(transitive) To squeeze (something) into something tightly fitting.
- He is sausaged into several overcoats and wears a brown macintosh under which he holds a roll of parchment. 1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 15: Circe]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 481:
- Knit blankets sausaged their legs. 2012, Katrina Onstad, Everybody Has Everything, Emblem, McClelland & Stewart, →ISBN, page 116:
- My soldier has pulled the maid’s apron from the mannequin in the larder, and sausaged his hairy thighs inside splitting the lace and seams, […] 2017, Kevin Shaw, Smaller Hours, Icehouse Poetry, Goose Lane Editions, →ISBN, page 20:
- Now it was my turn to whip my wrap off the ground. I quickly sausaged myself within it while simultaneously dusting sand off my arms and legs. 2011, Michelle Dalton, Sixteenth Summer, Simon Pulse, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, →ISBN, page 90:
- No longer able to wear white socks and slippers, she wore Tet Hose that sausaged her swollen feet and legs. 2012, Mary Elizabeth Moloney, Elizabeth: Learning to Dress Myself from the Inside Out, Heart Whisperings, →ISBN, page 253:
- Oh well, yes, I sausaged myself into the dark-blue wool—quite proper—and walked forever to the 21 Club where Dad was being tossed out—raging, whining—I hadn’t, I’ve told you already—seen him in years. 2015, Helen Wickes, World as You Left It: Poems, Sixteen Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 59:
- There’s nothing worse than having cashed out the college fund so that Mom and Dad and Buddy and Sis can afford airfare to Wally World, only to find out that they are additionally facing bag fees and snack fees, and soon enough, there will likely be a fee to have the 350-pound man sausaged next to Sis in the middle seat keep his meaty elbows out of her ribcage. 2017 December 25, “The Scrapbook: A Surcharge on the Charge, Sir”, in The Weekly Standard, volume 23, number 16, page 2, column 1:
- In her arms, an infant sausaged inside a rolled cedar mat. 2017, Karen Polinsky, Dungeness, Fairfield, Calif.: Bink Books, Bedazzled Ink Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 20:
- Filled to bursting with IV fluids, the skin on my hips is taut; it feels like I’ve sausaged myself into pantyhose five sizes too small. 2014 March/April, Caitlin Crawshaw, “The Other F-word”, in Briarpatch, volume 43, number 2, page 5:
- The second Mrs. Teague wore a baby blue tank top and too-tight white shorts that sausaged her hips. 2001, Jonathan Kellerman, Flesh and Blood, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 226:
(transitive, with-on) To fit snugly into.
- Dressing in a flash, she sausaged on her skinny jeans and sleeveless camo top with peek-a-boo sides for boob aficionados. 2016, Christopher Carr, Mayday, 2nd edition, SynergEbooks, →ISBN, page 51:
(transitive) To make into sausage.
- So I took the lot and had much of it custom-smoked, then I roasted, fried, grilled, sautéed, stir-fried, stewed, braised, and sausaged the rest. 1992 September, Leslie Land, “High on the Hog”, in House & Garden, volume 164, number 9, page 62, column 2:
- Long afterward Renate remembered “the pigs squeaking and jerking while coming down a funnel in which they were shorn…on their way to getting quartered and sausaged” and the elevator that “released one steer at a time” to be “greeted with a blow of a sledge hammer on his head.” 1987, Susan Quinn, A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney, Summit Books, Simon & Schuster, Inc., →ISBN, pages 246–247:
- At butchering time, they kept three pigs for their own use, smoking, brining, and sausaging the meat, and trying the lard. 1965, Landmark, Waukesha County Historical Society, page 16:
- 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. 1904, M[ilburg] F[rancisco] Mansfield, B[lanche] McM[anus], Romantic Ireland, volume II, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, page 99:
- The fresh meat was sausaged into the tripes of pig and deer and ox, because the time for salting was not yet come. a. 1994, John James, edited by Caitlín Matthews and John Matthews, The Fourth Gwenevere, Jo Fletcher Books, Quercus Editions Ltd., published 2014, →ISBN, page 47:
- I mayn’t know much about pigs, but I know a lot about Muckley, and there must be something pretty wrong with any pigs that he wouldn’t risk sausaging. 1938, Dion Fortune, The Sea Priestess, York Beach, Me.: Samuel Weiser, Inc., published 1989, →ISBN, page 245:
(transitive) To make sausage-like, especially to give the appearance of barely fitting into the casing or skin.
- 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. 2007, Joe Schreiber, Eat the Dark, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey/Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 108:
To form a sausage-like shape, with a non-uniform cross section.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Source
sausaging	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
sausaged	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
sausaged	Tense=Past	lexicographic
sausages	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic

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sausage en · VERB

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