salami
pronunciation
How to pronounce salami in British English:
UK [səˈlɑ:mi]
How to pronounce salami in American English:
US [sə'lɑmɪ]
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- Noun:
- highly seasoned fatty sausage of pork and beef usually dried
Word Origin
- salami (n.)
- "salted, flavored Italian sausage," 1852, from Italian salami, plural of salame "spiced pork sausage," from Vulgar Latin *salamen, from *salare "to salt," from Latin sal (genitive salis) "salt" (see salt (n.)).
Example
- 1. They brought me a plate piled high with italian salami .
- 2. We 're looking for a butcher shop to buy salami .
- 3. You tied him up like a salami !
- 4. You want ren ? S salami ?
- 5. And processed meat means anything that 's been preserved ( apart from by freezing ) so it includes salami , bacon , ham and sausages .