sausage
saus·age [sausage sausages] BrE [ˈsɒsɪdʒ] NAmE [ˈsɔːsɪdʒ] noun countable, uncountable a mixture of finely chopped meat, fat, bread, etc. in a long tube of skin, cooked and eaten whole or served cold in thin slices •beef/pork sausages •200g of garlic sausage see also ↑liver sausage Idiom: ↑not a sausage Word Origin: late Middle English: from Old Northern French saussiche, from medieval Latin salsicia, from Latin salsus ‘salted’, past participle of salere ‘to salt’, from sal ‘salt’.
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