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sau·sage

(sô′sĭj)

1. Finely chopped and seasoned meat, especially pork, usually stuffed into a prepared animal intestine or other casing and cooked or cured.

2. A small cylinder-shaped serving of this meat.

[Middle English sausige, from Anglo-Norman sausiche, from Vulgar Latin *salsīcia, from Late Latin, neuter pl. of salsīcius, prepared by salting, from salsus, salted; see sauce.]

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sausage

(ˈsɒsɪdʒ)

1. (Cookery) 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

2. an object shaped like a sausage

3. (Aeronautics) aeronautics informal a captive balloon shaped like a sausage

4. not a sausage nothing at all

[C15: from Old Norman French saussiche, from Late Latin salsīcia, from Latin salsus salted; see sauce]

ˈsausage-ˌlike adj

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sau•sage

(ˈsɔ sɪdʒ; esp. Brit. ˈsɒs ɪdʒ)

n.

finely chopped, seasoned meat, usu. stuffed into a prepared intestine or other casing and often made into links.

[1400–50; late Middle English sausige < dial. Old French sausiche < Late Latin salsīcia, neuter pl. of salsīcius seasoned with salt, derivative of Latin salsus salted]

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Noun	1.	sausage - highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings meat - the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food sausage meat - any meat that is minced and spiced and cooked as patties or used to fill sausages black pudding, blood pudding, blood sausage - a black sausage containing pig's blood and other ingredients Bologna sausage, bologna - large smooth-textured smoked sausage of beef and veal and pork chipolata - a small thin sausage chorizo - a spicy Spanish pork sausage frankfurter, weenie, wienerwurst, wiener, frank, hot dog, hotdog, dog - a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll headcheese - sausage or jellied loaf made of chopped parts of the head meat and sometimes feet and tongue of a calf or pig knackwurst, knockwurst - short thick highly seasoned sausage liver pudding, liver sausage, liverwurst - sausage containing ground liver pepperoni - a pork and beef sausage (or a thin slice of this sausage) pork sausage - sausage containing pork salami - highly seasoned fatty sausage of pork and beef usually dried souse - pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled
	2.	sausage - a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon sausage balloon, blimp airship, dirigible - a steerable self-propelled aircraft

sausage

noun banger sausages and chips

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Translations

سُجُقسُجُق ، نَقانِق

klobásapárekjelitojitrnice

pølse

Wurst Würstchen

λουκάνικο

salchicha embutido

makkara

saucisse saucisson andouille

kobasica

kolbász

pylsa, bjúga, sperîill

salsiccia salsiccia arrosto salume insaccato salame

ソーセージ

소시지

bandelė su dešreledešra

desacīsiņš

worst worstje

pølse såsiss liten pølse

kiełbasa

salsicha

колбаса колбаска колбасный сосиска

jaternicaklobása

klobasa

korv

ไส้กรอก

sosis

ковбасасосиска

xúc xích

香肠

sausage

[ˈsɒsɪdʒ]

A. N (to be cooked) → salchicha f; (= salami, mortadella etc) → embutido m, fiambre m
not a sausage (Brit) → ¡ni un botón!, ¡nada de nada!

B. CPD sausage dog N → perro m salchicha
sausage machine N → máquina f de hacer salchichas
sausage meat N → carne f de salchicha
sausage roll N (esp Brit) masa de hojaldre con una salchicha en su interior

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sausage

[ˈsɒsɪdʒ] n (to cook) → saucisse f (= salami) → saucisson msausage meat n → chair f à saucissesausage roll n → friand m

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sausage

→ Wurst f; you can’t judge a sausage by its skin (prov) → man kann nicht nach dem Äußeren urteilen; not a sausage (Brit inf) → rein gar nichts (inf)

(Brit, inf, = silly person) → Dummerchen nt (inf), → Schäfchen nt (inf)

sausage

sausage dog

n (Brit hum) → Dackel m

sausage machine

n → Wurstfüllmaschine f; (fig hum: = school) → Bildungsfabrik f

sausage meat

n → Wurstbrät nt

sausage roll

n → ˜ Bratwurst f → im Schlafrock

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sausage

[ˈsɒsɪdʒ] n (to be cooked) → salsiccia; (salami) → salame m

sausage

(ˈsosidʒ) noun

(a section of) minced meat seasoned and pushed into a tube of animal gut or a similar material. We had sausages for breakfast; garlic sausage.

ˌsausage-ˈroll noun

a piece of sausage meat cooked in a roll of pastry. They had sausage-rolls at the children's party.

sausage

→ سُجُق klobása pølse Wurst λουκάνικο salchicha makkara saucisse kobasica salsiccia ソーセージ 소시지 worstje pølse kiełbasa salsicha сосиска korv ไส้กรอก sosis xúc xích 香肠

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