Sausage
['sɒsɪdʒ] or ['sɔsɪdʒ]
Definition
(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.
(n.) A saucisson. See Saucisson.
Typist: Lucas
Definition
n. a gut stuffed with chopped meat salted and seasoned.—n. Sau′sage-poi′soning poisoning by spoiled sausages.
Edited by Helen
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of making sausage, denotes that you will be successful in many undertakings. To eat them, you will have a humble, but pleasant home.
Checker: Wilmer
Unserious Contents or Definition
An aftermath of the dog-days.
Typed by Barack
Examples
- He had a long sausage, a jar of something and two bottles of wine under his arm. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Sliced bacon, fancy sausage and other specialties are usually packed in a separate room, into attractive cartons for the retail trade. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- You get husky bread and sour drink by it; and he gets sausage of Lyons, veal in savoury jelly, white bread, strachino cheese, and good wine by it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The standard of cleanliness in the sausage kitchen has to be unusually high. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Beef is slaughtered and cleansed very much in the same manner as the pork described in The Story in a Sausage. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The shining metal tables and trucks, on which the product is handled, give a new confidence in sausage. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The lungs, heart, liver and trimmings go to the sausage department. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Very little of the beef was done either; and the ham (which was also from the German-sausage shop round the corner) was in a similar predicament. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I was so very nervous, that I had already lighted the Aged's sausage like a torch, and been obliged to blow it out. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Or so--like Lyons sausage,' said John Baptist, demonstrating the various cuts on the bread he held, and soberly chewing what he had in his mouth. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The brandy-bottle inside clinked up against the plate which held the cold sausage. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The cook got out his wire, apportioned a proper amount of sausage-meat, spat it on his hands and fell to work! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This sausage in a vine leaf is for Monsieur Rigaud. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The waiter brought a dish of sauerkraut with a slice of ham over the top and a sausage buried in the hot wine-soaked cabbage. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The intestines are stripped and cleaned for sausage casings. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- You will see some sausages, both cooked and uncooked; they were made for me by Mr. Bowron, poulterer, of Paddington, early in July last, before I went to Carlsbad. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I may remark that the bread in these sausages was not treated, and therefore it has become slightly sour, but the pork has kept perfectly fresh. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Dodger, take off the sausages; and draw a tub near the fire for Oliver. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I have also some other sausages which I bought Jan. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- He would take certain parts of the meat and make his home-made sausages, but further than that, by-products were practically unknown. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Checker: Nathan