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# sausage

noun (a sausage, sausages)

«sausage» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Minced meat (or a vegetarian mix) with spices, put inside a long thin skin and cooked. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sausage/#m1)
2. Informally, a fond name for a child or pet: "You silly sausage!" [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sausage/#m2)

### In the lessons

In everyday life sausages are eaten for breakfast, at barbecues, in hot dogs and in "sausage rolls"; in the UK and Ireland "bangers and mash" is sausages with mashed potato. In Australia, a "sausage sizzle" is a barbecue that raises money for schools. Phrases: sausage roll, sausage sizzle, sausage dog (a dachshund), bangers and mash.

### Examples

- We had sausages on the barbecue. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sausage/#x1)
- Dad bought a pack of eight sausages. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sausage/#x2)
- A sausage sizzle raised money for our school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sausage/#x3)
- Vegetarian sausages are made without meat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sausage/#x4)
- Prick the sausages with a fork before cooking. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sausage/#x5)
- Our dachshund is called a sausage dog. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sausage/#x6)
- You silly sausage, you have your shoes on the wrong feet! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sausage/#x7)

### Note

Countable: a sausage, sausages. Spelling trap: "sausage" has "au" in the middle, said like "SOS-ij". Safety: cook sausages right through so there is no pink inside, to avoid food poisoning. In maths: 3 packs of 8 sausages = 24 sausages.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «sausage» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sausage/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«sausage» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/sausage.html) on Mova free.