|  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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