Noun: sausage
| Singular | sausage |
| Plural | sausages |
Sample Sentences
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"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." [1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 44:]
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my little sausage
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“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?” [2019, Paullina Simons, Inexpressible Island (End of Forever):]
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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. [1991, Rich Pelley, "Tilt" (video game review) in Your Sinclair (issue 62, page 52)]
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I got fired and I'm back on the sausage again.
Nouns inflected like sausage
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Anglo-Norman sausichebor.
3. Middle English sawsiche
4. English sausage
5. From late Middle English sawsiche, from Anglo-Norman sausiche (compare Norman saûciche), from Late Latin salsīcia (compare Sicilian sausizza, Spanish salchicha, Italian salsiccia), feminine of salsīcius (“seasoned with salt”), derivative of Latin salsus (“salted”), from sal (“salt”). More at salt. Doublet of saucisse. See also Sicilian sausizza. Displaced native Old English mearh. See: Middle English Nouns '
sawsiche', Spanish Nouns '
salchicha', Italian Nouns '
salsiccia', Latin Nouns '
salsus', Old English Nouns '
mearh'.