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sausagelike

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sau⋅sage

  [saw-sij or, especially Brit., sos-ij]
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–noun
1. minced pork, beef, or other meats, often combined, together with various added ingredients and seasonings, usually stuffed into a prepared intestine or other casing and often made in links.
2. Aeronautics. a sausage-shaped observation balloon, formerly used in warfare.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME sausige < dial. OF sausiche < LL salsīcia, neut. pl. of salsīcius seasoned with salt, deriv. of L salsus salted. See sauce, -itious

Related forms:
sau⋅sage⋅like, adjective
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Word Origin & History

sausage 
c.1450, sawsyge, from O.N.Fr. saussiche (fr. saucisse), from V.L. *salsica "sausage," from salsicus "seasoned with salt," from L. salsus "salted" (see sauce).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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