sausage

[ saw-sij or, esp. British, sos-ij ]
/ ˈsɔ sɪdʒ or, esp. British, ˈsɒs ɪdʒ /
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noun

minced pork, beef, or other meats, often combined, together with various added ingredients and seasonings, usually stuffed into a prepared intestine or other casing and often made in links.
Aeronautics. a sausage-shaped observation balloon, formerly used in warfare.

Origin of sausage

1400–50; late Middle English sausige < dialectal Old French sausiche < Late Latin salsīcia, neuter plural of salsīcius seasoned with salt, derivative of Latin salsus salted. See sauce, -itious

OTHER WORDS FROM sausage

sau·sage·like, adjective

Words nearby sausage

saurian, saurischian, sauropod, sauropterygian, saury, sausage, sausage curl, sausage dog, sausage poisoning, sausage roll, sausage tree

Words related to sausage

bratwurst, frankfurter, banger, liverwurst, pepperoni, kielbasa, rolliche, wurst

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British Dictionary definitions for sausage

sausage
/ (ˈsɒsɪdʒ) /

noun

finely minced meat, esp pork or beef, mixed with fat, cereal or bread, and seasonings (sausage meat), and packed into a tube-shaped animal intestine or synthetic casing
an object shaped like a sausage
aeronautics informal a captive balloon shaped like a sausage
not a sausage nothing at all

Derived forms of sausage

sausage-like, adjective

Word Origin for sausage

C15: from Old Norman French saussiche, from Late Latin salsīcia, from Latin salsus salted; see sauce