sausage
noun /ˈsɒsɪdʒ/
/ˈsɔːsɪdʒ/
[countable, uncountable]Idioms - a mixture of meat, fat, bread, etc. cut into small pieces, put into a long tube of skin, cooked and eaten whole or served cold in thin slices
- beef/pork sausages
- 200g of garlic sausage
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- blood
- garlic
- pork
- …
- eat
- have
- cook
- …
- sizzle
- meat
- skin
- link
- …
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old Northern French saussiche, from medieval Latin salsicia, from Latin salsus ‘salted’, past participle of salere ‘to salt’, from sal ‘salt’.
Idioms
not a sausage
- (British English, old-fashioned, informal) nothing at all