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# sausage

«sausage» in Mova's school dictionary: **Minced meat (or a vegetarian mix) with spices, put inside…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a sausage, sausages)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Minced meat (or a vegetarian mix) with spices, put inside a long thin skin and cooked. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sausage/#m2)

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

### In the corpora

- [A sausage at a barbecue is mostly minced pork, and pork is meat from a pig.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/0/)
- [They hunt and find sardines, biscuits and a sausage.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/43-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers/9/)
- [A French hot-dog is often a sausage poked into a baguette; the h of hot-dog is not said.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french/12/)
- [At many Australian polling places, schools and clubs sell sausages in bread to raise money; people call it the democracy sausage.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/9-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand/8/)
- [kartOplya means potato, and kOvbasa is a salami-like sausage, while a hot-dog sausage is a sosyska.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sausage» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sausage/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.