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Cumberland sausage

Cumberland sausage noun: a traditional long English sausage made from chopped pork with pepper and herbs.

cumberland sausage: a traditional long English sausage made from chopped pork with pepper and herbs
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Noun

Cumberland sausage (countable and uncountable, plural Cumberland sausages)

  1. A traditional long English sausage made from chopped pork with pepper and herbs.
    • Cumberland sausage is about half as thick as your wrist and extends in a single rope several feet long, so that Mistrootchinson [Mister Hutchinson, the butcher], having weighed you one end while the other trailed over the edge of the scale, would then cut it for you like a draper selling a length...1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 62

Forms of Cumberland sausage

pluralCumberland sausages

Questions about Cumberland sausage

What does Cumberland sausage mean?
Cumberland sausage means a traditional long English sausage made from chopped pork with pepper and herbs.
What part of speech is Cumberland sausage?
Cumberland sausage is a noun.
What is the plural of Cumberland sausage?
The plural of Cumberland sausage is Cumberland sausages.

Words near Cumberland sausage in the dictionary

  1. Cumberland pie
  2. Cumberland pies
  3. Cumberland Reach
  4. Cumberland rum butter
  5. Cumberland sauce
  6. Cumberland sausage
  7. Cumberland sausages
  8. Cumberland slider
  9. Cumberland sliders
  10. Cumberlander
  11. Cumberlandism

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