sausage

plural sausages

1. countableuncountableA 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.
2. countableuncountableAn individual item of this food.

   "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

3. countableuncountableA sausage-shaped thing.
4. countableslanguncountablevulgarA penis.
5. countableinformaluncountableA term of endearment.

   my little sausage

   2 more examples

   “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)

   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)

6. archaiccountableuncountablegovernmentA saucisse.
7. countableuncountableA dachshund; sausage dog.
8. abbreviationcountableellipsisslanguncountableEllipsis of sausage roll (“the dole; unemployment”).

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

present singular third person sausages · participle present sausaging · participle past sausaged · past sausaged

1. transitiveTo squeeze (something) tightly into in a rolled or sausage-like form.

   In the top drawer were neatly piled thermals and socks sausaged into pairs.

   2012, Emily Perkins, The Forrests, Bloomsbury Circus, →ISBN, page 87

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   He leapt to his feet, carefully sausaged his screwdrivers in a roll beneath his arm and turned to reach into the box.

   2009, Paul Kenyon, I Am Justice: A Journey Out of Africa, Preface Publishing, The Random House Group, →ISBN, page 92

   Socks she sausaged like everyone else, but T-shirts she folded and stacked like a factory worker.

   2015, Tyrone Geronimo Johnson, Welcome to Braggsville, William Morrow, →ISBN, pages 150–151

2. transitiveTo squeeze (something) into something tightly fitting.

   Knit blankets sausaged their legs.

   2012, Katrina Onstad, Everybody Has Everything, Emblem, McClelland & Stewart, →ISBN, page 116

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

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 15: Circe]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 481

   The second Mrs. Teague wore a baby blue tank top and too-tight white shorts that sausaged her hips.

   2001, Jonathan Kellerman, Flesh and Blood, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 226

   Now it was my turn to whip my wrap off the ground. I quickly sausaged myself within it while simultaneously dusting sand off my arms and legs.

   2011, Michelle Dalton, Sixteenth Summer, Simon Pulse, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, →ISBN, page 90

   No longer able to wear white socks and slippers, she wore Tet Hose that sausaged her swollen feet and legs.

   2012, Mary Elizabeth Moloney, Elizabeth: Learning to Dress Myself from the Inside Out, Heart Whisperings, →ISBN, page 253

   Filled to bursting with IV fluids, the skin on my hips is taut; it feels like I’ve sausaged myself into pantyhose five sizes too small.

   2014 March/April, Caitlin Crawshaw, “The Other F-word”, in Briarpatch, volume 43, number 2, page 5

3. transitivewith onTo fit snugly into.

   Dressing in a flash, she sausaged on her skinny jeans and sleeveless camo top with peek-a-boo sides for boob aficionados.

   2016, Christopher Carr, Mayday, 2nd edition, SynergEbooks, →ISBN, page 51

4. transitiveTo make into sausage.

   The fresh meat was sausaged into the tripes of pig and deer and ox, because the time for salting was not yet come.

   a. 1994, John James, edited by Caitlín Matthews and John Matthews, The Fourth Gwenevere, Jo Fletcher Books, Quercus Editions Ltd., published 2014, →ISBN, page 47

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   There is no escaping the Limerick pig. In single file, in battalions, as solitary scout, alive or dead, baconed and sausaged, he dominates the town.

   1904, M[ilburg] F[rancisco] Mansfield, B[lanche] McM[anus], Romantic Ireland, volume II, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, page 99

   I mayn’t know much about pigs, but I know a lot about Muckley, and there must be something pretty wrong with any pigs that he wouldn’t risk sausaging.

   1938, Dion Fortune, The Sea Priestess, York Beach, Me.: Samuel Weiser, Inc., published 1989, →ISBN, page 245

   At butchering time, they kept three pigs for their own use, smoking, brining, and sausaging the meat, and trying the lard.

   1965, Landmark, Waukesha County Historical Society, page 16

   Long afterward Renate remembered “the pigs squeaking and jerking while coming down a funnel in which they were shorn…on their way to getting quartered and sausaged” and the elevator that “released one steer at a time” to be “greeted with a blow of a sledge hammer on his head.”

   1987, Susan Quinn, A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney, Summit Books, Simon & Schuster, Inc., →ISBN, pages 246–247

   So I took the lot and had much of it custom-smoked, then I roasted, fried, grilled, sautéed, stir-fried, stewed, braised, and sausaged the rest.

   1992 September, Leslie Land, “High on the Hog”, in House & Garden, volume 164, number 9, page 62, column 2

5. transitiveTo make sausage-like, especially to give the appearance of barely fitting into the casing or skin.

   Blood and gravity had sausaged her legs and feet, fattening them into white-stocking loaves that dangled eighteen inches above her neatly folded nurse’s uniform on the floor.

   2007, Joe Schreiber, Eat the Dark, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey/Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 108

6. engineeringTo form a sausage-like shape, with a non-uniform cross section.