sausage
/ˈsɔsɪd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.80 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a section of the animal's intestine, or in a similarly cylindrical shaped synthetic casing.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- ""When frying sausages," remarked Cripps, who seemed to regard that occupation as a cult, "it is advisable to perforate the outer skin with a fork.""
- "my little sausage"
- "“Algernon, you silly sausage. Now you want to marry me? Don't you remember we were already engaged to be married, and then I broke it off with you?”"
- "There are loads of mazes, it's all really good fun and utterly addictive — so you should certainly consider adding this little sausage to your collection."
- "I got fired and I'm back on the sausage again."
- "He leapt to his feet, carefully sausaged his screwdrivers in a roll beneath his arm and turned to reach into the box."
Etymology
Etymology tree Anglo-Norman sausichebor. Middle English sawsiche English sausage From late Middle English sawsiche, from Anglo-Norman sausiche (compare Norman saûciche), from Late Latin salsīcia (compare Sicilian sausizza, Spanish salchicha, Italian salsiccia), feminine of salsīcius (“seasoned with salt”), derivative of Latin salsus (“salted”), from sal (“salt”). More at salt. Doublet of saucisse. See also Sicilian sausizza. Displaced native Old English mearh.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: sawsiche, sausiche, salsīcia, salsus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsɔsɪd͡ʒ/
- British English: /ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ/