sausage

UK/ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ/US/ˈsɔsɪd͡ʒ/

nounA2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #2,885 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: sausages

A sausage is minced meat and spice pushed into a long skin. Fried, grilled, or coiled in a pan.

Every country has its own, and the word covers Cumberland, chorizo, bratwurst and salami alike. British breakfasts, hot dogs and toad in the hole all depend on them. English uses the word affectionately about people, since calling a child a silly sausage is fond rather than rude. There is also the phrase not a sausage, which means nothing at all, and has nothing whatever to do with food.

Definitions of sausage

1nounsausageMinced seasoned meat in a cylindrical skin.A2+
“He put four sausages under the grill.”

Phrases it lives in

not a sausage — nothing at all — British, informal and a little comic

Where it comes from

A sausage is salted. Latin salsīcius meant seasoned with salt, from sal, the same salt that lies behind salary.

Middle English
sawsiche
English, today
sausage

Built from

salsīcius · Latin — seasoned with salt
sal · Latin — salt

From Middle English sawsiche. From late Middle English sawsiche, from Anglo-Norman sausiche (compare Norman saûciche), from 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. a doublet of saucisse. See also Sicilian sausizza. Displaced native Old English mearh.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Food & Drink, A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 5 of A Man Called Ove.

Practise this word

sausage in the wild

Typically, a sausage is formed in a casing traditionally made from intestine, but sometimes from synthetic materials.
Sausage
Some sausages are cooked during processing, and the casing may then be removed.
Sausage
The British bakery chain Greggs sells around 2.5 million sausage rolls per week, or around 140 million per year.
Sausage roll
A hot dog is a grilled, steamed, or boiled sausage served in the slit of a partially sliced bun.
Hot dog
The term hot dog can also refer to the sausage itself.
Hot dog

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