sausage

== English == === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɔsɪd͡ʒ/ (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈsɑsɪd͡ʒ/ (obsolete) IPA(key): /ˈsæsɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈsɑːsɪd͡ʒ/ Rhymes: -ɒsɪdʒ, -ɔsɪdʒ, -ɑsɪdʒ === Noun === sausage (countable and uncountable, plural sausages) 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. An individual item of this food. A sausage-shaped thing. (vulgar slang) A penis. (informal) A term of endearment. 1991, Rich Pelley, "Tilt" (video game review) in Your Sinclair (issue 62, page 52) 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. (military, archaic) A saucisse. A dachshund; sausage dog. (rhyming slang) Ellipsis of sausage roll (“the dole; unemployment”). ==== Hypernyms ==== food foodstuff ==== Hyponyms ==== ==== Coordinate terms ==== allantois haggis kishka kishke pudding toad-in-the-hole ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Japanese: ソーセージ (sōsēji) → Korean: 소시지 (sosiji) → Samoan: sosisi → Scots: sausage ==== Translations ==== === Verb === sausage (third-person singular simple present sausages, present participle sausaging, simple past and past participle sausaged) (intransitive) To squeeze tightly into (something) in a rolled or sausage-like form. (transitive) To squeeze (something) into something tightly fitting. (transitive, with on) To fit snugly into. (transitive) To make into sausage. (transitive) To make sausage-like, especially to give the appearance of barely fitting into the casing or skin. (engineering) To form a sausage-like shape, with a non-uniform cross section. === References === sausage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “sausage”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. === Further reading === List of sausages at Wikipedia === Anagrams === assuage