sausaging
sausaging is the present participle and gerund of sausage.
Meaning of sausage
Verb
sausage (third-person singular simple present sausages, present participle sausaging, simple past and past participle sausaged)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
Questions about sausaging
- What is sausaging the present participle and gerund of?
- Sausaging is the present participle and gerund of sausage.
Words near sausaging in the dictionary
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