# sausage

Pronunciation: US say "SAW-sij" /ˈsɔsɪd͡ʒ/; UK say "SOS-ij" /ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ/

## Noun

1. A food of ground meat or meat substitute and seasoning, packed into a casing of animal intestine or a similar cylindrical synthetic one; also, a single length of it.
   - Simple: Ground meat, or a food like meat, mixed with spices and stuffed into a long thin skin. Also one piece of it.
   - _The butcher makes his own sausage from pork shoulder and fennel._
   - _She ordered a bratwurst, a thick sausage served on a roll with mustard._
2. A dachshund.
   - Simple: A dachshund, a small dog with a long body and very short legs.
   - _A wire-haired sausage named Otto trotted beside her, his belly almost brushing the sidewalk._
   - _She has owned three sausages, and every one of them dug holes under the fence._
3. Something shaped like a sausage.
   - Simple: Something long and round, shaped like a sausage.
   - _She rolled the clay into a long sausage and coiled it into the wall of a pot._
   - _A fabric sausage filled with sand lay along the bottom of the door to keep out drafts._
4. A playful term of endearment, used to or about someone one is fond of. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: A fond, playful name for someone you like.
   - _Oh, you silly sausage, your shoes are on the wrong feet!_
   - _Her dad still calls her his little sausage, even though she's thirty._
5. A penis. *(slang)*
   - Simple: The penis, the part of a man's body between his legs.
   - _After the swim in the freezing lake, he complained that his sausage had all but disappeared._
   - _The comedian built half his act around jokes about his sausage and his age._
11. Short for sausage roll: British rhyming slang for the dole, or unemployment. *(slang)* — Ellipsis of sausage roll (“the dole; unemployment”).
   - Simple: Short for sausage roll, British slang for money the government pays people who have no job.
   - _After the factory shut, half the street ended up on the sausage._
   - _He's been on the sausage since Christmas and can barely cover the rent._

## Verb

6. To squeeze someone or something into a tight-fitting covering, such as clothing.
   - Simple: To push someone or something into clothes or a cover that is very tight.
   - _Every winter morning she would sausage the twins into their puffy snowsuits before school._
   - _He sausaged himself into a wetsuit that hadn't fit since college._
7. To squeeze something tightly into a roll or other sausage-like bundle.
   - Simple: To roll things up tightly into a long bundle.
   - _Campers learn to sausage their spare clothes inside a towel so the bundle stays small._
   - _He sausaged the posters into a tight roll and slid them into a cardboard tube._
8. To make something look like a sausage, especially as if it barely fits inside its skin or covering.
   - Simple: To make something look fat and tight, like a sausage about to burst.
   - _Tight elastic cuffs sausage the wrists of anyone with thick arms._
   - _Hours on the plane had sausaged his ankles over the tops of his shoes._
9. To get into a snug-fitting garment, used with on.
   - Simple: To pull on tight clothes, squeezing your body into them.
   - _I can still sausage on my old cycling shorts, but I can't breathe in them._
   - _Running late, she sausaged on a pair of leggings and ran out the door._
10. To make meat, or an animal, into sausage.
   - Simple: To turn meat into sausage.
   - _Small farms often sausage the trimmings left over after the hams and chops are cut._
   - _Each fall the family smoked the bacon and sausaged whatever pork was left._
12. In engineering, to form a sausage-like shape whose cross section is not uniform along its length.
   - Simple: In engineering, to take a shape like a sausage, thick in some places and thin in others.
   - _Under heavy compression the rubber tube began to sausage, bulging between the clamps._
   - _If the extrusion speed is too high, the filament sausages and its diameter varies along the strand._

## Origin

From late Middle English sawsiche, from Anglo-Norman sausiche, from Late Latin salsīcia (compare Spanish salchicha, Italian salsiccia), feminine of salsīcius ("seasoned with salt"), from Latin salsus ("salted"), from sal ("salt"). It is a doublet of saucisse and displaced the native Old English mearh.

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