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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024sau•sage /ˈsɔsɪdʒ/USA pronunciation n. - Foodfinely chopped, seasoned meat stuffed into a casing: [countable]had sausages for breakfast.[uncountable]spicy Polish sausage.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024sau•sage (sô′sij or, esp. Brit., sos′ij),USA pronunciation n. - Foodminced pork, beef, or other meats, often combined, together with various added ingredients and seasonings, usually stuffed into a prepared intestine or other casing and often made in links.
- Aeronauticsa sausage-shaped observation balloon, formerly used in warfare.
- Late Latin salsīcia, neuter plural of salsīcius seasoned with salt, derivative of Latin salsus salted. See sauce, -itious
- dialect, dialectal Old French sausiche
- late Middle English sausige 1400–50
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: sausage /ˈsɒsɪdʒ/ n - finely minced meat, esp pork or beef, mixed with fat, cereal or bread, and seasonings (sausage meat), and packed into a tube-shaped animal intestine or synthetic casing
- an object shaped like a sausage
- informal a captive balloon shaped like a sausage
- not a sausage ⇒ nothing at all
Etymology: 15th Century: from Old Norman French saussiche, from Late Latin salsīcia, from Latin salsus salted; see sauce |