blood sausage

noun

: very dark sausage containing a large proportion of blood

called also blood pudding

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Only black pudding, also known as blood sausage, is made with blood. Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 19 July 2025 The Korean restaurant was cited for food safety violations including rice and Korean blood sausage that measured outside of the temperature range considered safe for food. Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 23 May 2025 Did Ancient Mongolians Only Eat Blood? Aside from blood sausages, also known as blood pudding in some areas, Mongolians likely subsisted mostly on meat and dairy products from their herds. Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2024 Wilder replaced Spanish red beans with tepary beans and the rice used as a binder in the recipe’s blood sausage with Sonoran white wheat berries. Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 3 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for blood sausage

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 29 Jul. 2025.

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