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Definition of sausage noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

sausage

noun
 
/ˈsɒsɪdʒ/
 
/ˈsɔːsɪdʒ/
 [countable, uncountable]Idioms
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  1. a mixture of meat, fat, bread, etc. cut into small pieces, put into a long tube of skin, cooked and eaten whole or served cold in thin slices
    • beef/pork sausages
    • 200g of garlic sausage
    see also blood sausage, Cumberland sausage, liver sausageTopics Fooda2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • blood
    • garlic
    • pork
    • …
    verb + sausage
    • eat
    • have
    • cook
    • …
    sausage + verb
    • sizzle
    sausage + noun
    • meat
    • skin
    • link
    • …
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    Word Originlate Middle English: from Old Northern French saussiche, from medieval Latin salsicia, from Latin salsus ‘salted’, past participle of salere ‘to salt’, from sal ‘salt’.
Idioms
not a sausage
  1. (British English, old-fashioned, informal) nothing at all
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