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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)

  1. (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
  2. (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
  3. (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
  4. (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
  5. (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
  6. To form a sausage-like shape, with a non-uniform cross section.

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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

  1. sausages
  2. sausagey
  3. sausagier
  4. sausagiers
  5. sausagiest
  6. sausaging
  7. sausagy
  8. Sausal
  9. Sausalito
  10. Sauseda
  11. Sausedas

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