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Sausage

Definition: Sausage

Sausage

Noun

1. Highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings.

2. A small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sausage" was first used: sometime around 1450. (references)

Etymology: Sausage \Sau"sage\, noun. [French expression saucisse, Late Latin expression salcitia, salsicia, from salsa. See Sauce.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Sausage

DomainDefinition

19th Century Satire

An aftermath of the dog-days. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.

Dream Interpretation

To dream of making sausage, denotes that you will be successful in many undertakings.
To eat them, you will have a humble, but pleasant home. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Sausage

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

simple:sausage

Sausage is a ground meat product, usually spiced, often smoked, pickled or boiled, and sometimes packed in casings. Sausage is a natural outcome of efficient butchery. There will always be small bits of meat and animal parts that are edible, but not particularly appealing as they stand, such as organ meats or blood. Such ingredients can be efficiently used to make sausage or other ground meat products.

Perhaps the best example of how sausage utilizes less appealing parts of the animal is head cheese, a simple sausage made of roughly chopped meat from the head -- lips, ears, snout, cheeks -- spiced and bound together by gelatin (also made from otherwise inedible animal parts).

Other simple sausages, such as Italian sausage, are made by grinding meat and animal parts, mixing in spices, and packing it in a casing, traditionally reusing the intestines of the animal, but now more often cellulose tubing. This model also serves for the hot dog, pepperoni, kielbasa, Braunschweiger and many lunch meat products, such as bologna, Lebanon bologna (from Lebanon, Pennsylvania), salami, and summer sausage.

Spices, smoking, and casings all contribute to making the sausage easier to store, although not all sausages will keep.

Other sausages, such as American country sausage, are simply ground and spiced meat.

Irish and English sausages, or bangers, normally have a significant amount of rusk, or bread crumbs, and are less meaty than sausages from other countries. The skinless meat is served as sausage meat, which can be fried or used as a stuffing for poulty, or a wrapping for foods like Scotch eggs. Bangers are also used to make toad in the hole.

Sausages may be used as an entreé, in a sandwich (when in a bread roll, as a hot dog), or as an ingredient in other dishes, such as stews and casseroles.

Every nation and every region has its characteristic sausages, using the meats and spices native to the region and employed in traditional dishes. Some sausages are of great antiquity, among the oldest of prepared foods.

See also

Quotes

"People who enjoy eating sausage and obey the law should not watch either being made" - Otto von Bismarck

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Synonyms: Sausage

Synonyms: blimp (n), sausage balloon (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sausage

English words defined with "sausage": banger, black pudding, blood pudding, blood sausage, Bologna, bologna sausage, Botargo, botuliform, bratwurst ♦ frank, frankfurter ♦ headcheese, hot dog, hotdog ♦ jambalaya ♦ knackwurst, knockwurst ♦ liver pudding, liver sausage, Livering, liverwurst ♦ pepperoni, polony, pork sausage ♦ salami, sausage pizza, sausage roll, saveloy, Scotch egg ♦ toad-in-the-hole ♦ weenie, Wiener, wienerwurst. (references)
Specialty definitions using "sausage": beef trimmer ♦ CASING GRADER, casing inspector, casing sorter, casing tester ♦ farm butcher ♦ lard trimmer, LINKER, litigation ♦ MEAT CLERK, MEAT DRESSER, Meat Products, meat smoker ♦ piece trimmer, piece-meat trimmer ♦ retrimmer, rotary debugger ♦ Salchichon, sausage linker, SAUSAGE MAKER, sausage stuffer, SAUSAGE-MEAT TRIMMER, SEASONING MIXER, smokehouse attendant, spice mixer, SUPERVISOR, CURED-MEAT PACKING, SUPERVISOR, SPECIALTY FOOD PRODUCTS. (references)
Etymologies containing "sausage": Pudding. (references)

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Modern Usage: Sausage

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Witches in days gone by were roasted just like my Vienna sausage. (The Blair Witch Project; writing credit: Daniel Myrick; Eduardo Sánchez)

Must've been. Anchovies, sausage, mushrooms, garlic and green peppers (Manhattan; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman)

Yeah, an instructional video on how to make your own sausage. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Fagin, this sausage is moldy (Oliver!; writing credit: Charles Dickens; Lionel Bart)

Isn't there a single sausage patty that isn't shaped like a heart (Less Than Perfect; writing credit: David Blum; Tom Hertz)

Clever

People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either of them being made. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Call Her Sausage (1933)

William Hohenzollern Sausage Maker (1919)

Too Much Sausage (1916)

Ham and the Sausage Factory (1915)

Stuffing Sausage (1901)

Song Titles

Hot Cakes and Sausage (performing artist: Tony DeSimone Trio)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Sausage

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Sausage Roll Appetisers and Dips (reference)

  • The World Market for Sausage Made from Meat, Meat Offal, or Blood: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

  • Bruce Aidells's Complete Sausage Book : Recipes from America's Premium Sausage Maker (reference)

  • Home Sausage Making (reference)

  • Making Great Sausage at Home (reference)

  • Professional Charcuterie: Sausage Making, Curing, Terrines, and Pates (reference)

  • Sausage (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Sausage

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Photo Album: Sausage

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(1) color slide shows one sausage biscuit. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).

(2) color slides show single slice of pizza. (1) plain cheese, (1) sausage and cheese. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).

Supermarket  Bacon and sausage in the Mapledale Giant in Dale City, VA. Credit: USDA.

Farmer's wife grinding meat to make sausage, Lakeview Project, Arkansas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mrs. C.D. Grant and neighbor making pork sausage. Penderlea Farms, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.

Fruit jars being sterilized on old lady Graham's back fence in berry season. Near Conway, Arkansas. "We just gather and can peas, beans, berries, and sausage when we butcher the hogs in the winter. We put up seventy-five quarts of berries, sixty of beans,. Credit: Library of Congress.

New Bedford, Massachusetts. Lingucia (Portuguese sausage) factory. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hypnotist directing group of people to do unusual activities: woman playing washboard, woman riding man, men using brooms as musical instruments, policeman using sausage as weapon. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Sausage
 

"Diner" by Marlon Bruin
Commentary: "Potatoes, beans, sausage and salat."		"Butifarra" by Ibon San Martin
Commentary: "Spanish sausage in a barbacue."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Sausage

AuthorQuotation

Eugene Field

A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Sausage

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Infection occurs worldwide, but is most common in areas where raw or undercooked pork, such as ham or sausage, is eaten. (references)

It is likely to have greatest application for raw foods of animal origin that are made by mixing materials from many animals together, such as ground meat or sausage. (references)

Economic History

Russia

They manufacture up to 60 varieties of sausage. (references)

Russia

U.S. pork trimmings and picnics are becoming increasingly popular as ingredients for sausage makers. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

LITIGATION, n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Sausage

"Sausage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.81% of the time. "Sausage" is used about 513 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.81%51211,844
Noun (proper)0.19%1339,140
                    Total100.00%513N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Sausage

Expressions using "sausage": blood sausage ♦ bologna sausage ♦ flat sausage ♦ German sausage ♦ liver sausage ♦ not a sausage ♦ pork sausage ♦ sausage antenna ♦ sausage balloon ♦ sausage casings ♦ sausage curl ♦ sausage dam ♦ sausage dog ♦ sausage fingers ♦ sausage for grilling ♦ sausage hound ♦ sausage instability ♦ sausage machine ♦ sausage maker ♦ sausage meat ♦ sausage pizza ♦ sausage roll ♦ sausage shop ♦ small sausage ♦ smoked sausage ♦ spicy sausage ♦ Vienna sausage. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "sausage": sausage-balloon, sausage-bog, sausage-diameter, sausage-hung, sausage-like, sausage-machine, sausage-maker, sausage-makers, sausage-making, sausage-munching, sausage-roll, sausage-rolls, sausage-shape, sausage-shaped, sausage-skin.

Ending with "sausage": italian-sausage, meat-sausage.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sausage

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day		ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sausage

711

summer sausage

42

sausage recipe

263

sausage stuffers

39

italian sausage recipe

115

polish sausage recipe

36

making sausage

114

make sausage

35

italian sausage

106

casserole egg sausage

33

smoked sausage

96

sausage ball recipe

32

sausage gravy

77

pickled sausage

29

german sausage

65

gourmet sausage

27

sausage casing

65

vienna sausage

27

sausage maker

63

sausage roll

27

polish sausage

62

homemade sausage recipe

25

johnsonville sausage

60

sausage making recipe

25

sausage ball

56

homemade sausage

24

sausage and pepper

55

chicken sausage

23

smoked sausage recipe

54

sausage machine

22

sausage gravy recipe

53

breakfast recipe sausage

22

dean jimmy sausage

46

pork sausage

21

sausage stuffer

46

casserole sausage

21

pepper recipe sausage

45

blood sausage

21

andouille sausage

45

sausage stuffers vacuum

21

cajun sausage

21
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Sausage

Language Translations for "sausage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

wors. (various references)

   

Albanian

  

suxhuk (Frankfurter, hot dog), salsiçe (boloney, hot dog, pudding), sallam. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏منطاد مقيد للمراقبة, ‏مقانق, ‏نقانق (frankfurter, hot dog), ‏نوع من الخبز, ‏سجق (pudding). (various references)

   

Aymara

  

aychathejhe. (various references)

   

Bavarian

  

salami. (various references)

   

Bemba

  

sauseshi. (various references)

   

Blackfoot

  

áíksinottsis. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

наденица. (various references)

   

Catalan

  

botifarra. (various references)

   

Cebuano

  

soriso. (various references)

   

Chamorro

  

churisos. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

臄 (palate), 香腸 , 香肠. (various references)

   

Cornish

  

selsygen. (various references)

   

Czech

  

salám, vuřt, uzenka, klobása (meat-sausage). (various references)

   

Danish

  

pølse (saucisson). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

worst, beuling (black pudding). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

kolbaso. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

pylsa. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

سوسیگ , سوسیس (Weeny), روده محتوی گوشت چرخ شده . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

makkara. (various references)

   

French

  

saucisse (sausage for spreading, spread sausage), saucisson, andouille (sap). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

woarst. (various references)

   

German

  

Wurst (banger, salami), Bratwurst (frying sausage). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

λουκάνικο (hotdog, wiener). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

נקניק (salami). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kolbász (snags). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

pylsa. (various references)

   

Irish

  

ispín. (various references)

   

Italian

  

salsiccia (sausage for spreading, spread sausage). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

腸詰め , ゼロ地点 (general strike, ground zero, sewing kit, social dancing, social worker, soda-lime glass, sorcerer, source, source file, source-code). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ソーセージ , ちょうづめ. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

소시지. (various references)

   

Macedonian

  

kolbasa. (various references)

   

Manx

  

pronnag. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

pølse. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

wòrst, wòrs. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ausagesay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

salsicha (sausage for spreading, spread sausage). (various references)

   

Provencal

  

saussissa. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

salam (salame, salami), crenvurşt, cârnãcior (link). (various references)

   

Romansch

  

liongia. (various references)

   

Romany

  

goy. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

колбаса (kielbasa, sausage link, wurst). (various references)

   

Samoan

  

sosisi. (various references)

   

Scottish

  

ìsbean. (various references)

   

Sepedi

  

boroso. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

kobasica, barutna kobasica za paljenje mina. (various references)

   

Sicilian

  

sasizza. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

salchicha (banger, bratwurst, Frankfurter, hot dog), chorizo (chorizo). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

korv (boloney, wiener). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ไส้กรอก. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sosis şeklinde, sosis (banger, wiener, wienie), alman (balt, dutch, dutchman, german, Hun, kraut, teuton). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

kolbasa (r). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

сосиска (beagle, sassinger), ковбаса (sassage, sassinger). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

xúc xích, dồi (polony). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

selsig (black-pudding). (various references)

   

Zulu

  

isositshi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Sausage

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

botellus, botulus, salsus. (various references)

Medieval Latin700-1500

botellus. (various references)

Old French900-1400

boudin. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Sausage

Derivations

Words beginning with "sausage": sausages. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Sausage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: assage, ausage, Ausgabe, aussage, saluage, sasage, sauage, sausag, sausaged, sausagey, Sausmarez, Saussurea, sauvage, scutage, sosage, suasage, susage, Susuga, Tausug. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Sausage"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "sausage" (pronounced sô"suj)
3-s u jdosage, message, passage, usage.

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Anagrams: Sausage

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: assuage.

Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-s-s-u"

-1 letter: usages.

-2 letters: agues, gases, gauss, guess, sagas, sages, usage.

-3 letters: agas, ages, ague, asea, gaes, saga, sage, sags, seas, segs, sues, uses.

-4 letters: aas, aga, age, ass, eau, ess, gae, gas, sae, sag, sau, sea, seg, sue, use.

-5 letters: aa, ae, ag, as, es, us.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-s-s-u"
 

+1 letter: assuaged, assuages, guanases, sausages.

 

+3 letters: coagulases, pasturages, safeguards, slanguages, sugarcanes, unassuaged.

 

+4 letters: assuagement, gastrulates, gradualness, sialagogues, submanagers, sugarloaves.

 

+5 letters: agapanthuses, assuagements, glutaminases, strangulates, sublanguages.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern 		5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art 		9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Usage Frequency
12. Expressions 		13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Translations: Ancient
16. Derivations 		17. Rhymes
18. Anagrams
19. Bibliography


  

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