sausage
/ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ/ · noun
Meaning
- 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.
- A sausage-shaped thing.
- A penis.
- A term of endearment.
- A saucisse.
- A dachshund; sausage dog.
- Ellipsis of sausage roll (“the dole; unemployment”).
- To squeeze tightly into (something) in a rolled or sausage-like form.
- To squeeze (something) into something tightly fitting.
- To fit snugly into.
- To make into sausage.
- To make sausage-like, especially to give the appearance of barely fitting into the casing or skin.
- To form a sausage-like shape, with a non-uniform cross section.
Etymology / origin
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.
- mearh(Old English)→
- sausizza(Sicilian)→
- salsus(Latin)→
- salsiccia(Italian)→
- salchicha(Spanish)→
- sausizza(Sicilian)→
- salsīcia(la-lat)→
- saûciche(nrf)→
- sausiche(xno)→
- sawsiche(Middle English)→
- sausage (English)
- Relations: inh, der, cog, der, cog, cog, cog, der, cog, cog
Related words
sawsiche(Middle English)sausiche(xno)saûciche(nrf)salsīcia(la-lat)sausizza(Sicilian)salchicha(Spanish)salsiccia(Italian)salsus(Latin)mearh(Old English)सॉसेज(Hindi)sociso(Ido)ソーセージ(Japanese)소시지(Korean)소시지 야채 볶음(Korean)sosej(Malay)jo̧jej(Marshallese)sosisi(Samoan)soseji(Swahili)sosis(Tok Pisin)selsig(Welsh)sosej(Welsh)
Descendant words
- सॉसेज(Hindi) (bor)
- sociso(Ido) (bor)
- ソーセージ(Japanese) (bor)
- 소시지(Korean) (bor)
- 소시지 야채 볶음(Korean) (der)
- sosej(Malay) (bor)
- jo̧jej(Marshallese) (bor)
- sosisi(Samoan) (bor)
- soseji(Swahili) (bor)
- sosis(Tok Pisin) (der)
- selsig(Welsh) (cog)
- sosej(Welsh) (bor)
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