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sausage

UK /ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ/US /ˈsɔsɪd͡ʒ/

noun 8
verb 6
forms 3
phrases 2

noun8

a long, thin food made by filling a skin with meat cut very small, with salt and other things added for taste
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An individual item of this food.
- "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." — 1913
A sausage-shaped thing.
A dachshund; sausage dog.
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(informal) A term of endearment.
- “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?” — 2019
(slang, vulgar) A penis.
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(slang) Ellipsis of sausage roll (“the dole; unemployment”).
- I got fired and I'm back on the sausage again.
(no longer used) A saucisse.

verb6

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To squeeze (something) into something tightly fitting.
- He is sausaged into several overcoats and wears a brown macintosh under which he holds a roll of parchment. — 1922
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To fit snugly into.
- Dressing in a flash, she sausaged on her skinny jeans and sleeveless camo top with peek-a-boo sides for boob aficionados. — 2016
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To squeeze (something) tightly into in a rolled or sausage-like form.
- He leapt to his feet, carefully sausaged his screwdrivers in a roll beneath his arm and turned to reach into the box. — 2009
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To make sausage-like, especially to give the appearance of barely fitting into the casing or skin.
- Blood and gravity had sausaged her legs and feet, fattening them into white-stocking loaves that dangled eighteen inches above her neatly folded nurse’s uniform on the floor. — 2007
To form a sausage-like shape, with a non-uniform cross section.
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To make into sausage.
- There is no escaping the Limerick pig. In single file, in battalions, as solitary scout, alive or dead, baconed and sausaged, he dominates the town. — 1904

forms

sausaged · sausaging · sausages

Phrases with sausage

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