sausage

sausage

English

Russian sausage making

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔsɪd͡ʒ/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑsɪd͡ʒ/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /ˈsæsɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈsɑːsɪd͡ʒ/[1]

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• Rhymes: -ɒsɪdʒ, -ɔsɪdʒ, -ɑsɪdʒ

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) Penis.
4. (informal) A term of endearment.

   my little sausage

   • 2019, Paullina Simons, Inexpressible Island (End of Forever):

     “Algernon, you silly sausage. Now you want to marry me? Don't you remember we were already engaged to be married, and then I broke it off with you?”

5. (military, archaic) A saucisse.[2]
6. A dachshund; sausage dog.

Hypernyms

• food
• foodstuff

Hyponyms

• andouille
• baloney
• banger
• black pudding
• blood pudding
• blood sausage
• boerewors
• bologna
• boudin
• bratwurst
• Braunschweiger
• chipolata
• chorizo
• cocktail frank
• cocktail frankfurt
• cocktail sav
• cocktail savaloy
• cocktail wiener
• Cumberland sausage
• farmer's sausage
• frank
• frankfurt
• frankfurter
• garlic sausage
• hot dog sausage
• kielbasa
• knackwurst
• knockwurst
• kubasa
• lamb sausage
• linguica
• liver sausage
• liverwurst
• merguez
• mortadella
• pepperoni
• Polish sausage
• polony
• Portuguese sausage
• salami
• sav
• saveloy
• smokie
• snag
• Vienna sausage
• white pudding
• wiener
• wienerwurst
• wors
• wurst

 

Coordinate terms

• allantois
• haggis
• kishka
• kishke
• pudding
• toad-in-the-hole

Related terms

• hide the sausage
• how the sausage gets made
• not a sausage
• sausage dog
• sausage fest
• sausage meat
• sausage party
• sausage roll
• sausage tree

 

Translations

a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing

Afrikaans: wors (af) Albanian: suxhuk (sq), sallam (sq) Arabic: سُجُق‎ m (sujuq), نَقَانِق‎ m (naqāniq) Egyptian Arabic: سجق‎ m (suguʾ), سوسيس‎ m (susīs) Morocco: مرقاز‎ (mergaz), سوسيس‎ (susis) Aragonese: please add this translation if you can Armenian: երշիկ (hy) (eršik) Asturian: salchicha f Azerbaijani: kolbasa (az) Basque: txistorra Belarusian: каўбаса́ f (kaŭbasá) Bengali: সসেজ (sôsej) Breton: silzigenn (br) Bulgarian: на́деница f (nádenica), кренвирш m (krenvirš) Burmese: ဝက်အူချောင်း (my) (wak-uhkyaung:) Catalan: salsitxa (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 香腸, 香肠 (hoeng1 coeng4-2) Dungan: чонзы (čonzɨ) Hakka: 煙腸, 烟肠 (yên-chhòng), 灌腸, 灌肠 (kon-chhòng) Mandarin: 香腸／香肠 (zh) (xiāngcháng) Min Nan: 煙腸 (zh-min-nan), 烟肠 (ian-chhiâng, ian-chhiân), 灌腸 (zh-min-nan), 灌肠 (kòan-chhiâng) Wu: 香腸, 香肠 (xian zan) Chuvash: кӑлпасси (kălp̬assi) Czech: klobása (cs) f Danish: pølse (da) c Dutch: worst (nl) m Esperanto: kolbaso (eo) Estonian: vorst Faroese: pylsa f Finnish: makkara (fi) French: saucisse (fr) f Friulian: please add this translation if you can Galician: salchicha (gl) f, longaínza (gl) f, chourizo (gl) m Georgian: ძეხვი (ʒexvi) German: Wurst (de) f Greek: λουκάνικο (el) n (loukániko) Ancient: ἀλλᾶς m (allâs), φύσκη f (phúskē), χορδή f (khordḗ), χόλιξ f (khólix) Greenlandic: immigaq, pølse Gujarati: સોસેજ f (sosej), ફુલમો m (phulmo) Hebrew: נַקְנִיק‎ (he) m (naknik) Hindi: सॉसेज (sŏsej) Hungarian: kolbász (hu) Hunsrik: Worst f Icelandic: pylsa (is) f, bjúga (is) n Ido: sociso (io) Indonesian: sosis (id) Irish: ispín (ga) m Italian: salsiccia (it) f, salame (it) m, salume (it) m, insaccato (it) m Japanese: ソーセージ (ja) (sōsēji), カルパス (karupasu) (dry or semi-dry type) Kalmyk: цуцг (tsutsg) Kannada: ಸಾಸೇಜ್ (sāsēj) Kazakh: шұжық (şūjyq), шұжықша (şūjyqşa) Khmer: សាច់ក្រក (sac krɑɑk) Korean: 소시지 (ko) (sosiji), 칼파스 (ko) (kalpaseu) (North Korea) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: sosîs (ku) Kyrgyz: колбаса (kolbasa), чучук (ky) (çuçuk) Lao: ໄສ້ອົ່ວ (lo) (sai ʼūa) Latin: botulus (la) m, tomāclum n, farcīmen n, hillae f pl, tuccētum n, salsicia f Latvian: desa f Lithuanian: dešra f Livonian: mȭka Luxembourgish: Zoossiss (lb) f Lü: ᦺᦉᧉ (ṡay²) Macedonian: ко́лбас m (kólbas) Malay: sosej Maltese: salami m, supresatt m Maori: tōtiti (mi) Marathi: सॉसेज (sŏsej) Marshallese: jo̧jej Middle English: podynge, sawcistre Mongolian: хиам (mn) (xiam) Navajo: bisóodi bitsįʼ yikʼánígíí Norman: sâociche f (continental Normandy), sauchisse f (Guernsey), saûciche f (Jersey) Northern Sami: márfi Norwegian: pølse (no) c Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: клъбаса f (klŭbasa) Old East Slavic: колбаса f (kolbasa) Old English: mearh m Papiamentu: sosèshi Pashto: پچ کولمه‎ f (рǝč kwǝlmá) Persian: سوسیس‎ (fa) (sosis), کالباس‎ (fa) (kâlbâs), زیجک‎ (zijak) Piedmontese: saussissa f Plautdietsch: Worscht f Polish: kiełbasa (pl) f Portuguese: salsicha (pt) f, linguiça (pt) f Quechua: aycha t'iqi Romanian: cârnat (ro) m Russian: колбаса́ (ru) f (kolbasá), соси́ска (ru) f (sosíska) (small sausage) Scottish Gaelic: isbean m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: кобасица f Roman: kobasica (sh) f Sinhalese: සොසේජ් (sosēj) Skolt Sami: määʹrf Slovak: klobása f Slovene: klobasa (sl) f Sotho: boroso Spanish: embutido (es) m, salchicha (es) f, salchichón m Swahili: soseji Swedish: korv (sv) c Tagalog: suriso, batutay Tajik: ҳасиб (tg) (hasib), колбаса (kolbasa) Tamil: தொத்திறைச்சி (tottiṟaicci) Tatar: казылык (tt) (qazılıq) Telugu: సాసేజ్ (sāsēj) Thai: ไส้กรอก (th) (sâi-grɔ̀ɔk) Tibetan: རྒྱུ་མ་བརྒྱངས་པ (rgyu ma brgyangs pa) Turkish: sosis (tr), sucuk (tr), salam (tr), kolbasa (tr) Turkmen: kolbasa Ukrainian: ковбаса́ (uk) f (kovbasá) Urdu: ساسیج‎ (sāsej) Uyghur: كولباسا‎ (kolbasa) Uzbek: kolbasa (uz) Vietnamese: xúc xích (vi) Vilamovian: wiyśt Walloon: please add this translation if you can Welsh: selsigen (cy) f West Frisian: woarst Yakut: халбаһы (xalbahı) Yiddish: וווּרשט‎ m or f (vursht) Yoruba: sọ́séèjì

small, uncooked

Afrikaans: wors (af) Armenian: նրբերշիկ (hy) (nrberšik), սասիսկի (sasiski) (colloquial) Belarusian: сасі́ска f (sasíska) Catalan: salsitxa (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 香腸, 香肠 (hoeng1 coeng4-2), 腸仔, 肠仔 (coeng4-2 zai2) Mandarin: 腸兒／肠儿 (zh) (chángr) Czech: párek (cs) m, vuřt (cs) m Dutch: worst (nl) m Finnish: makkara (fi) French: saucisson (fr) m Galician: salchicha (gl) f Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Würstchen (de) n, Wurst (de) f Greek: λουκάνικο (el) n (loukániko) Irish: ispín (ga) m Italian: salsiccia (it) f Japanese: ソーセージ (ja) (sōsēji), 腸詰め (ちょうづめ, chōzume) Lao: please add this translation if you can Latvian: desa f Macedonian: ко́лбас m (kólbas) Maltese: zalzett m Marathi: सॉसेज (sŏsej) Norwegian: pølse (no) c, sosiss m Persian: سوسیس‎ (fa) (sosis) Polish: kiełbaska (pl) f Portuguese: salsicha (pt) f, linguiça (pt) f Russian: соси́ска (ru) f (sosíska), сарде́лька (ru) f (sardɛ́lʹka) (larger) Scottish Gaelic: isbean m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: кобасица f Roman: kobasica (sh) f Sotho: boroso Spanish: salchicha (es) f Turkish: sosis (tr) Ukrainian: соси́ска f (sosýska) Uzbek: sosiska West Frisian: woarst Yiddish: וווּרשט‎ m or f (vursht)

sausage-shaped thing

Finnish: makkara (fi) Greek: λουκάνικο (el) n (loukániko) Portuguese: salsichão (pt) m Russian: колбаса́ (ru) f (kolbasá), соси́ска (ru) f (sosíska) Spanish: salchicha (es) f

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Esperanto: (please verify) kolbaso (eo) Georgian: (please verify) ძეხვი (ʒexvi), (please verify) კუპატი (ḳuṗaṭi), (please verify) სოსისი (sosisi) Romanian: (please verify) cârnat (ro) m Spanish: (please verify) embutido (es) m, (please verify) chorizo (es)

Verb

sausage (third-person singular simple present sausages, present participle sausaging, simple past and past participle sausaged)

1. (engineering) To form a sausage-like shape, with a non-uniform cross section.

References

1. Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎, volume I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 10.82, page 315.
2. 1881, Thomas Wilhelm, A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

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Further reading

• List of sausages at Wikipedia

Anagrams

• assuage