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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Finely chopped and seasoned meat, especially pork, usually stuffed into a prepared animal intestine or other casing and cooked or cured.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An article of food, consisting usually of chopped or minced meat, as pork, beef, or veal, seasoned with sage, pepper, salt, etc., and stuffed into properly cleaned entrails of the ox, sheep, or pig, tied or constricted at short intervals. When sausages are made on an extensive scale the meat is minced and stuffed into the intestines by machinery.
  2. n. In milit. mining, a canvas tube filled with powder.
  3. n. plural A commercial name for crude rubber in finger- or sausage-shaped pieces. See rubber, 3.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a cylindrical casing. Also a length of sausage, or an example of a sausage.
  2. n. A sausage-shaped thing.
  3. n. colloquial Penis.
  4. n. A term of endearment.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. An article of food consisting of meat (esp. pork) minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal.
  2. n. A saucisson. See Saucisson.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings
  2. n. a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon

Etymologies

  1. From late Middle English sausige, from Anglo-Norman saussiche (compare Jèrriais saûciche), from Late Latin salsīcia (compare Spanish salchicha, Italian salsiccia), neuter plural of salsīcius ("seasoned with salt"), derivative of Latin salsus ("salted"), from sal ("salt"). More at salt. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English sausige, from Anglo-Norman sausiche, from Vulgar Latin *salsīcia, from Late Latin, neuter pl. of salsīcius, prepared by salting, from salsus, salted; see sauce. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • Telofy I wonder if snausages are tinny. Sep 17, 2009

  • hernesheir A friend of mine who likes sn- words like snout, snore, sniffle, and snort, likes to call sausages "snausages" as a nod to the pork content of same. Sep 17, 2009

  • john See also makkara. Nov 15, 2008

  • seanahan The best pizza topping ever. Feb 18, 2007

  • chained_bear see also--when good sausages get together to hang out--sausage fest Feb 18, 2007

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