SAUSAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sausage mean? 

• SAUSAGE (noun)
  The noun SAUSAGE has 2 senses:

1. highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings

2. a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon

  Familiarity information: SAUSAGE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAUSAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("sausage" is a kind of...):

meat (the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food)

Meronyms (substance of "sausage"):

sausage meat (any meat that is minced and spiced and cooked as patties or used to fill sausages)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sausage"):

black pudding; blood pudding; blood sausage (a black sausage containing pig's blood and other ingredients)

bologna; Bologna sausage (large smooth-textured smoked sausage of beef and veal and pork)

chipolata (a small thin sausage)

chorizo (a spicy Spanish pork sausage)

dog; frank; frankfurter; hot dog; hotdog; weenie; wiener; wienerwurst (a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll)

headcheese (sausage or jellied loaf made of chopped parts of the head meat and sometimes feet and tongue of a calf or pig)

knackwurst; knockwurst (short thick highly seasoned sausage)

liver pudding; liver sausage; liverwurst (sausage containing ground liver)

pepperoni (a pork and beef sausage (or a thin slice of this sausage))

pork sausage (sausage containing pork)

salami (highly seasoned fatty sausage of pork and beef usually dried)

souse (pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

blimp; sausage; sausage balloon

Hypernyms ("sausage" is a kind of...):

airship; dirigible (a steerable self-propelled aircraft)

 Context examples 

Beg and pray as the mouse and the sausage might, it was of no use; the bird remained master of the situation, and the venture had to be made.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

"Look here!" he cried, leaning forward and dabbing a great hairy sausage of a finger on to the picture.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In a tight sky-blue suit that made his arms and legs like German sausages, or roly-poly puddings, he was the merriest and most miserable of all the boys.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

So saying, he slammed a sack of gold dust of the size of a bologna sausage down upon the bar.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The second course was two ducks trussed up in the form of fiddles; sausages and puddings resembling flutes and hautboys, and a breast of veal in the shape of a harp.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

If 'the sausage' as they called it, stood on end, it was a sign that he might approach and repose, but if it lay flat across the sofa, woe to man, woman, or child who dared disturb it!

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Once upon a time, a mouse, a bird, and a sausage, entered into partnership and set up house together.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

For a moment I had a vision of four adventurers floating like a string of sausages over the land that they had explored.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They therefore drew lots, and it fell to the sausage to bring in the wood, to the mouse to cook, and to the bird to fetch the water.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

But the sausage remained so long away, that they became uneasy, and the bird flew out to meet him.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)