Would you like any sausage?
They bought sausages for the picnic.
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First Known Use: 15th century
in the meaning defined above
See Words from the same yearbologna, frank, frankfurter, hot dog, kielbasa, knockwurst (also knackwurst), liver sausage (also liver pudding), liverwurst, pepperoni, salami, Vienna sausage, weenie, wiener (also weiner), wienerwurst;
blood sausage (also blood pudding);
: spicy ground meat (such as pork) that is usually stuffed into a narrow tube of skin or made into a small flat cake
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