sausage
pronunciation
How to pronounce sausage in British English:
UK [ˈsɒsɪdʒ]
How to pronounce sausage in American English:
US [ˈsɔːsɪdʒ]
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- Noun:
- highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings
- a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon
Word Origin
- sausage
- sausage: [15] A sausage is etymologically a dish made by ‘salting’. The word comes via Old Northern French saussiche from late Latin salsīcia, a noun use of the neuter plural of salsīcius ‘made by salting’. This in turn was based on Latin salsus ‘salted’, a derivative of sāl ‘salt’. The earliest record of the use of sausage dog for ‘dachshund’ (an allusion to its cylindrical shape, and also perhaps to the Germans’ supposed liking for sausages) dates from the late 1930s.=> salt
- sausage (n.)
- mid-15c., sawsyge, from Old North French saussiche (Modern French saucisse), from Vulgar Latin *salsica "sausage," from salsicus "seasoned with salt," from Latin salsus "salted" (see sauce).
Example
- 1. Jimmy coughed and choked on a piece of sausage .
- 2. Thousands of muscle strips later : cruelty-free mouse sausage .
- 3. In the odyssey homer unflatteringly compares odysseus to a fat sausage .
- 4. Traditional sausage is encased in the submucosa , the collagen layer of animal intestines .
- 5. A man in the english town of reading evenlefta sausage casserole in a bus .