Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

summer sausage

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.78 in modern English

Syllables: sum-mer sausage
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Sausage cured to the extent that it requires no refrigeration.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Now these bodies hanging from that overhead pipe. The cocked heads. The dangling shoes. The tongues protruding like summer sausages."

Usage

Inflected Forms

summer sausages (plural)

Questions

What does summer sausage mean?: Sausage cured to the extent that it requires no refrigeration.

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