sausage

saus‧age S3 /ˈsɒsɪdʒ $ ˈsɒː-/ BrE AmE noun [uncountable and countable]
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Old North French; Origin: saussiche, from Late Latin salsicia, from Latin salsus 'salted']
1. a small tube of skin filled with a mixture of meat, spices etc, eaten hot or cold after it has been cooked:
pork sausages
2. not a sausage! British English old-fashioned informal nothing at all:
‘Have you heard from Tom yet?’ ‘No, not a sausage!’

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

sausage

saus·age [sausage sausages] [ˈsɒsɪdʒ] [ˈsɔːsɪdʒ] noun countable, uncountable
a mixture of finely chopped meat, fat, bread, etc. in a long tube of skin, cooked and eaten whole or served cold in thin slices
• beef/pork sausages
• 200g of garlic sausage
see also liver sausage
Idiom: not a sausage
Word Origin:

late Middle English: from Old Northern French saussiche, from medieval Latin salsicia, from Latin salsus ‘salted’, past participle of salere ‘to salt’, from sal ‘salt’.

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

sausage / ˈsɒs.ɪdʒ / / ˈsɑː.sɪdʒ / noun [ C or U ]

sausage

A2 a thin, tube-like case containing meat that has been cut into very small pieces and mixed with spices:

fried/grilled pork sausages

half a pound of garlic sausage

Collins Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

sausage

[sɒ̱sɪʤ, AM sɔ͟ːs-]
sausages
N-VAR
A sausage consists of minced meat, usually pork, mixed with other ingredients and is contained in a tube made of skin or a similar material.
...sausages and chips.

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

sausage

sau·sage /ˈsɑːsɪʤ/ noun, pl -sag·es : spicy ground meat (such as pork) that is usually stuffed into a narrow tube of skin or made into a small flat cake

[noncount]

• Would you like any/some sausage?

[count]

• breakfast sausages
• They bought sausages for the picnic.
not a sausage Brit informal + old-fashioned : nothing
• What did they find? Not a sausage.

American English

British English

Sausages

sausages - burgers and stuffings

A2 (Elementary)

noun

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