Sausage Meaning
/ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA 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.
nounAn individual item of this food.
Sentence Examples
Would you like bacon or sausage?
"Dachshund sausage" was a good name for the frankfurter.
The second course has chickpeas, chicken, meat, sausage and potato.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The butcher prepared a fresh ____ by grinding pork and stuffing it into a casing.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She grilled a ____ and served it in a bread roll with mustard and onions.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
""When frying sausages," remarked Cripps, who seemed to regard that occupation as a cult, "it is advisable to perforate the outer skin with a fork.""
— 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 44:
"“Algernon, you silly sausage. Now you want to marry me? Don't you remember we were already engaged to be married, and then I broke it off with you?”"
— 2019, Paullina Simons, Inexpressible Island (End of Forever):
"He leapt to his feet, carefully sausaged his screwdrivers in a roll beneath his arm and turned to reach into the box."
— 2009, Paul Kenyon, I Am Justice: A Journey Out of Africa, Preface Publishing, The Random House Group, →ISBN, page 92:
"He is sausaged into several overcoats and wears a brown macintosh under which he holds a roll of parchment."
— 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 15: Circe]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 481:
"The second Mrs. Teague wore a baby blue tank top and too-tight white shorts that sausaged her hips."
— 2001, Jonathan Kellerman, Flesh and Blood, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 226:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The butcher prepared a fresh ____ by grinding pork and stuffing it into a casing.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She grilled a ____ and served it in a bread roll with mustard and onions.