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sausage

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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.

[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.]

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]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.sausagesausage - 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
airship, dirigible - a steerable self-propelled aircraft
Translations
Spanish sausage [ˈsɔsɪdʒ] nsalchicha;
(salami etc) → salchichón m

French sausage [ˈsɔsɪdʒ] nsaucisse f (= salami etc); saucisson m
German sausage [ˈsɔsɪdʒ] nWurst f
Italian sausage [ˈsɔsɪdʒ] nsalsiccia (= salami etc); salame m

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Joey and his father were shadowing a pork-butcher's shop, pocketing the sausages for which their family has such a fatal weakness, and so when the butcher engaged Joey as his assistant there was soon not a sausage left.
In reality, true nature is as difficult to be met with in authors, as the Bayonne ham, or Bologna sausage, is to be found in the shops.
You get husky bread and sour drink by it; and he gets sausage of Lyons, veal in savoury jelly, white bread, strachino cheese, and good wine by it.
 
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