blood sausage

noun

: very dark sausage containing a large proportion of blood

called also blood pudding

Examples of blood sausage in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web One of the only sit-down eateries serving a Polish menu in the city, the tiny spot has been cooking traditional fare like dill pickle soup, kiszka (blood sausage), and sobieski (breaded chicken cutlet) since 2002 in what feels like a family dining room (the founder carved the furniture by hand). Megan Zhang, Saveur, 6 Sep. 2023 Sundae links, the Korean blood sausage, are already resting in the restaurant’s walk-in freezer. Mrussell, oregonlive, 29 June 2023 The secret to cooking the perfect steak A multi-step meal that can last several hours, entrees include choripan, morcilla (blood sausage) and provoleta before moving onto organ meats such as mollejas (beef sweetbreads), chinchulines (chitterlings) and rinones (kidneys). Sorrel Moseley-Williams, CNN, 5 Mar. 2023 Angelenos seem to have embraced blood sausage. Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2022 So not the actual, like, blood sausage... Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 21 Sep. 2020 The dynamite combination of clams and black pudding (blood sausage) married land and sea, the Christmas spices and iodine tang of the pudding and the briny sweetness of the clams knitted together with apple, onions, parsley, and a cider gastrique. Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2023 At Angler, Chung is serving a ssam platter with duck-blood sausage and pork belly. Andy Wang, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023 There were a dozen food stalls here, mostly different Korean cuisines (soy garlic wings and other fried treats on sticks, a dumpling station, blood sausage and kimchi jjigae), and other Asian offerings too: pho, sushi, tonkatsu. Angella Choe, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1799, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of blood sausage was in 1799

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“Blood sausage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blood%20sausage. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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