sausage

CEFRA1

/ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Spiced meat or another food mixture in a tube-shaped skin.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A sausage-shaped thing.

Examples

  • "Dachshund sausage" was a good name for the frankfurter.

  • The second course has chickpeas, chicken, meat, sausage and potato.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. An individual item of this food.

  2. 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.

  3. A term of endearment.

More examples

In context

  • Would you like bacon or sausage?

  • I got fired and I'm back on the sausage again.

  • 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.

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

The butcher prepared a fresh blank by grinding pork and stuffing it into a casing.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

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.