sausage

sau·sage  (sôsj)

n.

Finely chopped and seasoned meat, especially pork, usually stuffed into a prepared animal intestine or other casing and cooked or cured.

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[Middle English sausige, from Anglo-Norman sausiche, from Vulgar Latin *salscia, from Late Latin, neuter pl. of salscius, prepared by salting, from salsus, salted; see sauce.]

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sausage

Noun

1. finely minced meat mixed with fat, cereal, and seasonings, in a tube-shaped casing

2. an object shaped like a sausage

3. not a sausage Informal nothing at all [Old French saussiche]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sausage - highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings meat - the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food sausage meat - any meat that is minced and spiced and cooked as patties or used to fill sausages black pudding, blood pudding, blood sausage - a black sausage containing pig's blood and other ingredients Bologna sausage, bologna - large smooth-textured smoked sausage of beef and veal and pork chipolata - a small thin sausage chorizo - a spicy Spanish pork sausage frankfurter, weenie, wienerwurst, wiener, frank, hot dog, hotdog, dog - a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll headcheese - sausage or jellied loaf made of chopped parts of the head meat and sometimes feet and tongue of a calf or pig knackwurst, knockwurst - short thick highly seasoned sausage liver pudding, liver sausage, liverwurst - sausage containing ground liver pepperoni - a pork and beef sausage (or a thin slice of this sausage) pork sausage - sausage containing pork salami - highly seasoned fatty sausage of pork and beef usually dried souse - pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled
	2.	sausage - a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon sausage balloon, blimp airship, dirigible - a steerable self-propelled aircraft

Translations

sausage [ˈsɔsɪdʒ] n → salchicha;

(salami etc) → salchichón m

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sausage [ˈsɔsɪdʒ] n → saucisse f (= salami etc); saucisson m

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sausage [ˈsɔsɪdʒ] n → Wurst f

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sausage [ˈsɔsɪdʒ] n → salsiccia (= salami etc); salame m