From late Middle English sawsiche, from Anglo-Norman sausiche (compare nrf saûciche), from Late Latin salsīcia (compare Sicilian sausizza, Spanish salchicha, Italian salsiccia), feminine of salsīcius ("seasoned with salt"), derivative of Latin salsus, from sal ("salt").

• (RP) IPA: /ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ/
• (America) IPA: /ˈsɔsɪd͡ʒ/
• (cot-caught) IPA: /ˈsɑsɪd͡ʒ/
• (obsolete) IPA: /ˈsæsɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈsɑːsɪd͡ʒ/

sausage

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; a length of this food.
2. A sausage-shaped thing.
3. (vulgar slang) The penis.
4. (informal) A term of endearment.

   my little sausage

   • 1991, Rich Pelley, "Tilt" (video game review) in Your Sinclair (issue 62, page 52)

     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.

5. (military, archaic) A saucisse.
6. A dachshund; sausage dog.
7. (rhyming slang) Short for sausage roll (“the dole; unemployment”).

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

• French: saucisse
• German: Wurst
• Italian: salsiccia, salame, salume, insaccato
• Portuguese: salsicha, linguiça
• Russian: колбаса́
• Spanish: embutido, salchicha, salchichón

• French: saucisson
• German: Würstchen, Wurst
• Italian: salsiccia
• Portuguese: salsicha, linguiça
• Russian: соси́ска
• Spanish: salchicha

• Portuguese: salsichão
• Russian: колбаса́
• Spanish: salchicha

sausage (sausages, present participle sausaging; simple past and past participle sausaged)

1. To squeeze tightly into something.
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 15: Circe]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC ↗, part II [Odyssey], page 481 ↗:

     He is sausaged into several overcoats and wears a brown macintosh under which he holds a roll of parchment.

2. To make into sausage.
3. To make sausage-like, especially to give the appearance of barely fitting into the casing or skin.
4. (engineering) To form a sausage-like shape, with a non-uniform cross section.