Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sosiska

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: so-siska
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A small sausage made from a mixture of ground meats, spices, and sometimes other ingredients like breadcrumbs or grains.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"It took her only 15 minutes to reach the counter to get her sosiski."
"His train of thought having been broken for the moment, he felt the pangs of hunger and stuffed some of the black bread and sosiska he carried in his knapsack into his mouth."
"Sosiski were Mom’s favorite food. I was hooked on them too, though Mom claims that the sosiski of my childhood couldn’t hold a candle to the juicy Stalinist article."

Etymology

From Russian соси́ска (sosíska), from French saucisse (“sausage (hot dog style)”) (whence English saucisse) + Russian -ка (-ka, diminutive suffix), from Old French saucice (whence English sausage).

Origin

Source language: Russian

Word Breakdown

Root: соси́ска, saucisse, -ка, saucice

Usage

Inflected Forms

sosiski (plural)

Questions

What does sosiska mean?: A small sausage made from a mixture of ground meats, spices, and sometimes other ingredients like breadcrumbs or grains.
Where does sosiska come from?: It is traced to Russian.

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