sausage
noun
- food usually made from ground meat with a skin around it
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ/ / /ˈsɔsɪd͡ʒ/ / /ˈsɑsɪd͡ʒ/
noun
Etymology: 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.
- 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.
- An individual item of this food.
“"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."”
- A sausage-shaped thing.
- A penis.
- A term of endearment.
“my little sausage”
““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?””
- A saucisse.
- A dachshund; sausage dog.
- Ellipsis of sausage roll (“the dole; unemployment”).
“I got fired and I'm back on the sausage again.”
verb
Etymology: 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.
- To squeeze tightly into (something) in a rolled or sausage-like form.
“He leapt to his feet, carefully sausaged his screwdrivers in a roll beneath his arm and turned to reach into the box.”
- To squeeze (something) into something tightly fitting.
“He is sausaged into several overcoats and wears a brown macintosh under which he holds a roll of parchment.”
“The second Mrs. Teague wore a baby blue tank top and too-tight white shorts that sausaged her hips.”
- To fit snugly into.
“Dressing in a flash, she sausaged on her skinny jeans and sleeveless camo top with peek-a-boo sides for boob aficionados.”
- To make into sausage.
“There is no escaping the Limerick pig. In single file, in battalions, as solitary scout, alive or dead, baconed and sausaged, he dominates the town.”
“I mayn’t know much about pigs, but I know a lot about Muckley, and there must be something pretty wrong with any pigs that he wouldn’t risk sausaging.”
- To make sausage-like, especially to give the appearance of barely fitting into the casing or skin.
“Blood and gravity had sausaged her legs and feet, fattening them into white-stocking loaves that dangled eighteen inches above her neatly folded nurse’s uniform on the floor.”
- To form a sausage-like shape, with a non-uniform cross section.