sausage

noun

1. 1

   A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a section of the animal's intestine, or in a similarly cylindrical shaped synthetic casing.

2. 2

   An individual item of this food.

   "When frying sausages," remarked Cripps, who seemed to regard that occupation as a cult, "it is advisable to perforate the outer skin with a fork."

3. 3

   A sausage-shaped thing.

4. 4

   slangA penis.

5. 5

   informalA term of endearment.

   my little sausage

   “Algernon, you silly sausage. Now you want to marry me? Don't you remember we were already engaged to be married, and then I broke it off with you?”

   There are loads of mazes, it's all really good fun and utterly addictive — so you should certainly consider adding this little sausage to your collection.

6. 6

   archaicA saucisse.

7. 7

   A dachshund; sausage dog.

8. 8

   Variant of sausage rollslangEllipsis of sausage roll (“the dole; unemployment”).

   I got fired and I'm back on the sausage again.

verb

1. 1

   To squeeze tightly into (something) 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.

2. 2

   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.

   The second Mrs. Teague wore a baby blue tank top and too-tight white shorts that sausaged her hips.

   Now it was my turn to whip my wrap off the ground. I quickly sausaged myself within it while simultaneously dusting sand off my arms and legs.

   No longer able to wear white socks and slippers, she wore Tet Hose that sausaged her swollen feet and legs.

3. 3

   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.

4. 4

   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.

   I mayn’t know much about pigs, but I know a lot about Muckley, and there must be something pretty wrong with any pigs that he wouldn’t risk sausaging.

   At butchering time, they kept three pigs for their own use, smoking, brining, and sausaging the meat, and trying the lard.

   Long afterward Renate remembered “the pigs squeaking and jerking while coming down a funnel in which they were shorn…on their way to getting quartered and sausaged” and the elevator that “released one steer at a time” to be “greeted with a blow of a sledge hammer on his head.”

5. 5

   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.

6. 6

   To form a sausage-like shape, with a non-uniform cross section.

Forms

plural

sausages

past tense

sausaged

past participle

sausaged

present participle

sausaging

third person singular

sausages