Etymology

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Today it means: A Portuguese garlic and paprika seasoned smoke cured pork sausage. Full definition →

Portuguese linguiça
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  1. Portuguese · borrowed fromlinguiça“sausage”
  2. English todaylinguica

From Portuguese linguiça (“sausage”). Doublet of longaniza and longganisa.

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