sausage

UK/ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ//ˈsɔsɪd͡ʒ/

sausage 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. Also the ellipsis of sausage roll.

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Noun

sausage (countable and uncountable, plural sausages)

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.
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, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 44
A sausage-shaped thing.
(slang, vulgar) A penis.
(informal) A term of endearment.
- 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?”2019, Paullina Simons, Inexpressible Island (End of Forever)
(archaic) A saucisse.
A dachshund; sausage dog.

Verb

sausage (third-person singular simple present sausages, present participle sausaging, simple past and past participle sausaged)

(transitive) 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, Paul Kenyon, I Am Justice: A Journey Out of Africa, Preface Publishing, The Random House Group, →ISBN, page 92
- In the top drawer were neatly piled thermals and socks sausaged into pairs.2012, Emily Perkins, The Forrests, Bloomsbury Circus, →ISBN, page 87
(transitive) 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 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 15: Circe]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 481
- The second Mrs. Teague wore a baby blue tank top and too-tight white shorts that sausaged her hips.2001, Jonathan Kellerman, Flesh and Blood, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 226
(transitive, with-on) 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, Christopher Carr, Mayday, 2nd edition, SynergEbooks, →ISBN, page 51
(transitive) 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, M[ilburg] F[rancisco] Mansfield, B[lanche] McM[anus], Romantic Ireland, volume II, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, page 99
- I mayn’t know much about pigs, but I know a lot about Muckley, and there must be something pretty wrong with any pigs that he wouldn’t risk sausaging.1938, Dion Fortune, The Sea Priestess, York Beach, Me.: Samuel Weiser, Inc., published 1989, →ISBN, page 245
(transitive) 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, Joe Schreiber, Eat the Dark, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey/Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 108
To form a sausage-like shape, with a non-uniform cross section.

Also used as

sausage is also the ellipsis of sausage roll.

sausage meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

sausage in Hindi

a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing: सॉसेज sŏsej

sausage in Tamil

a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing: தொத்திறைச்சி tottiṟaicci

sausage in Marathi

a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing: सॉसेज sŏsej
individual item: सॉसेज sŏsej

sausage in Urdu

a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing: ساسیج sāsej

More languagesFewer languages

sausage in Bengali: সসেজ śośej
sausage in Telugu: సాసేజ్ sāsēj
sausage in Malayalam: സോസേജ്, സോസേജിംഗ്, സോസേജിങ്
sausage in Kannada: ಸಾಸೇಜ್ sāsēj
sausage in Punjabi: ਸੌਸੇਜ, ਸੋਸੇਜ, ਸੌਸੇਜਿੰਗ
sausage in Gujarati: સોસેજ sosej, ફુલમો phulmo
sausage in Odia: ସସେଜ, ସସେଜ୍, ସସେଜିଂ
sausage in Sinhala: සොසේජ් sosēj
sausage in Nepali: सॉसेज, सोसेज, सॉसेजिङ
sausage in Pashto: پچ کولمه pǝč kwǝlma, ساسیج sāsij
sausage in Tagalog: suriso, batutay
sausage in Arabic: سُجُق sujuq, نَقَانِق naqāniq
sausage in Malay: sosej
sausage in Indonesian: sosis
sausage in Thai: ไส้กรอก sâi-grɔ̀ɔk
sausage in Vietnamese: xúc xích
sausage in Myanmar: ဝက်အူချောင်း wak-uhkyaung:

Examples of sausage in a sentence

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.1991, Rich Pelley, "Tilt" (video game review) in Your Sinclair (issue 62, page 52)
Socks she sausaged like everyone else, but T-shirts she folded and stacked like a factory worker.2015, Tyrone Geronimo Johnson, Welcome to Braggsville, William Morrow, →ISBN, pages 150–151:
I quickly sausaged myself within it while simultaneously dusting sand off my arms and legs.2011, Michelle Dalton, Sixteenth Summer, Simon Pulse, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, →ISBN, page 90:
No longer able to wear white socks and slippers, she wore Tet Hose that sausaged her swollen feet and legs.2012, Mary Elizabeth Moloney, Elizabeth: Learning to Dress Myself from the Inside Out, Heart Whisperings, →ISBN, page 253:

All 40 example sentences with sausage

Forms of sausage

Noun
plural	sausages
Verb
third-person singular present	sausages
present participle	sausaging
past participle	sausaged
past	sausaged

Plural of sausage: sausages

Origin of 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.

Words formed from sausage

Questions about sausage

What does sausage mean?: Sausage means 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.
What is sausage in Hindi?: Sausage in Hindi is सॉसेज (sŏsej). See Sausage meaning in Hindi.
How do you use sausage in a sentence?: 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.
What part of speech is sausage?: Sausage can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce sausage?: Sausage is pronounced /ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ/ (UK).
What is the plural of sausage?: The plural of sausage is sausages.

Words near sausage in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: sausage (page history and authors); sausage (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sausage (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sausage (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sausage (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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