- 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
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- blood
- garlic
- pork
- …
- eat
- have
- cook
- …
- sizzle
- meat
- skin
- link
- …
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’.Definitions on the go
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Idioms
See sausage in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarynot a sausage
- (British English, old-fashioned, informal) nothing at all
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