sausage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A tube of minced meat and seasoning in a thin skin, cooked and eaten as food.

   We had sausages and mashed potatoes for dinner.

2. 2
   noun

   An affectionate name for someone (informal).

   Come here and give me a hug, you little sausage.

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.

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