SAUSAGE

blimp, sausage balloon, sausage

(noun) a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon

sausage

(noun) highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

sausage (countable and uncountable, plural sausages)

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.

A sausage-shaped thing.

(vulgar slang) Penis.

(informal) A term of endearment.

(military, archaic) A saucisse.

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

Verb

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

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

Anagrams

• assuage

Source: Wiktionary


Sau"sage (; 48), n. Etym: [F. saucisse, LL. salcitia, salcicia, 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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