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sausage

  • noun
  • /ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ/

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.

Other meanings

  1. An individual item of this food.

  2. A sausage-shaped thing.

A kind of

  • meat

Kinds of sausage

  • black pudding
  • hot dog
  • liver pudding
  • pork sausage

Related words

  • sausagefest
  • sausageless
  • sausagelike
  • sausagemaker
  • sausagemaking
  • sausager
  • sausagey
  • sausagy
  • sauso
  • snausage
  • soysage
  • blue sausage fruit

Word history

From Latin "salsus" (salted).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “sausage” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.