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sausagey en · ADJ

Etymology

From sausage + -y.

Meanings

1. (informal) Synonym of sausagelike.
   • So there you have it: You have now seen how dialog box sausages are made. (Actually, reality is much sausagier, because I skipped over all the application compatibility hacks![…]) 2005 March 31, Raymond Chen, “The dialog manager, part 3: Creating the controls”, in The Old New Thing (MSDN Blogs), archived from the original on 21 Aug 2006; republished as Raymond Chen, “How dialogs are created”, in The Old New Thing: Practical Development Throughout the Evolution of Windows, Boston, Mass.: Pearson Education, 27 December 2006, →ISBN, chapter 10 (The Inner Workings of the Dialog Manager):
   • Now, you’ll want the hand hole itself about 4″ long and 1¼″ wide. That should accommodate even the sausagiest of fingers. 1979, Ferenc Maté, “Bulkhead Hand Grab”, in The Finely Fitted Yacht, volume I (Interior), Vancouver, B.C.: Albatross Publishing House; New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton, →ISBN, section VIII (Bibelots), page 234:
2. (informal, rare) With sausage.
   • I wouldn’t call it a cleansing soup, but there’s something incredibly healing about a deep red pot of sausagey stew that’s been generously watered with wine – it seems to cure all. 2016, Henrietta Clancy, “The great chorizo cure”, in Just Soup: Everything You Need in a Bowl, London: Short Books, →ISBN, page 128:
   • Mmmm . . . pancakes. Actually, more yummy sausage gravy and biscuits today, just like yesterday only more^([sic]) sausagier. 2003 January 5, Kevin S. Wilson, “GAAAAH!”, in alt.fan.beable (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Mar 2026:
   • He smelled of the sausagey stew we’d all had for dinner. 1997 fall, Alexandra Shelley, “Suspended Animation”, in Confrontation […], number 62/63, Brookville, N.Y.: Long Island University, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 74:
   • Wishing you a merry Christmas, and a sausagey new year. 1998 December 16, Rich Asplin, “its getting a bit empty....”, in uk.local.north-staffs (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Mar 2026:

Forms

Synonyms

sausagelike