sauso

sauso noun: a sausage.

Noun (1)

sauso (plural sausos)

(Australia, slang) A sausage.
- No one notices as I stick the newly created sausos into my pocket.2013, Danny Ellis, The Boy at the Gate: A Memoir
- Heap in the sausos and the rashers and boil the living shit out of them.2015, Colm Tobin, Surviving Ireland

sauso (countable and uncountable, plural sausos)

(obsolete) A South American shrub known for forming thick hedges along river banks.
- The large quadrupeds of those regions, the tigers, tapirs, and pecaris, have made openings in the hedge of sausos which we have just described.1819, “Forest of South America”, in The Fireside magazine; or, Monthly entertainer, volume 1
- When they are disturbed by a passing Indian canoe, and are about to retreat into the forest, they do not attempt to rush violently through these hedges of sauso, but proceed deliberately along the bank, between the hedge and the river, affording the traveller the gratification of watching their...1850, The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review

When the sands on the river side are of considerable breadth, the sauso often stretches to a considerable distance from the water's edge.1855, A. M. Hartley, “The Wild Animals of South America”, in The Academic Speaker:
Where the sauso receded some slight distance inland, the sandy bank was covered with crocodiles, in parties of eight or ten, lying motionless, and with open jaws, basking in the sun.1879, The Story of the Life and Travels of Alexander Von Humboldt:
[…] it never attempts to break through the dense thorny growth of the sauso wall, but trots slowly away between the wall and the river, and disappears up the nearest opening.1881, Hermann Joseph Klein, Land, sea and sky; or, Wonders of life and nature:

plural	sausos

From saus(age) + -o.

What does sauso mean?: Sauso means a sausage.
How do you use sauso in a sentence?: When the sands on the river side are of considerable breadth, the sauso often stretches to a considerable distance from the water's edge.
What part of speech is sauso?: Sauso is a noun.
What is the plural of sauso?: The plural of sauso is sausos.

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