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Webster 1913 Edition

Sausage

Sau′sage

(?; 48)
,
Noun.
[F.
saucisse
, LL.
salcitia
,
salsicia
, fr.
salsa
. See
Sauce
.]
1.
An article of food consisting of meat (esp. pork) minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal.
2.
A saucisson. See
Saucisson
.
Wilhelm.

Webster 1828 Edition

Sausage

SAUS'AGE

,
Noun.
[L. salsus.]
The intestine of an animal stuffed with minced meat and seasoned.

Definition 2024

sausage

sausage

English

Russian sausage making

Noun

sausage ‎(countable and uncountable, plural sausages)

  1. 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; a length of this food.
  2. A sausage-shaped thing.
  3. (vulgar slang) ****.
  4. A term of endearment.
    my little sausage
    Silly sausage.
  5. (military, archaic) A saucisse.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of 1881, Thomas Wilhelm, "A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer" to this entry?)

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From late Middle English sausige, from Anglo-Norman saussiche (compare Norman saûciche), from Late Latin salsīcia (compare Spanish salchicha, Italian salsiccia), neuter plural of salsīcius ‎(“seasoned with salt”), derivative of Latin salsus ‎(“salted”), from sal ‎(“salt”). More at salt.

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