sausage
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++saus·age /ˈsɒsɪdʒ $ ˈsɒː-/ ●●● S3 noun [countable, uncountable] 1 DFa small tube of skin filled with a mixture of meat, spices etc, eaten hot or cold after it has been cooked 香肠 pork sausages 猪肉香肠2 not a sausage! British English old-fashioned informalNONE/NOTHING nothing at all 一点也没有！ ‘Have you heard from Tom yet?’ ‘No, not a sausage!’ “你有没有汤姆的消息？”“没有，毫无音讯！”
Examples from the Corpus
sausage• Add sausage slices, diced ham, onion, green pepper and celery.• Do you want bacon or sausage with your eggs?• Toucans sit in cages and aluminum pots steam with hot food, stewed beef and chicken or sausage and potatoes.• Licensed hawkers were circulating, braying the merits of spiced sausages containing only real animal protein - so they claimed.• Cut the sausages in half through the middle and push each half on the end of a wooden skewer.• After waiting in line, I put two pennies on the counter and pointed above to the sausages.• There were sausages strung like fat paper-chains between stalls.Origin sausage (1400-1500) Old North French saussiche, from Late Latin salsicia, from Latin salsus “salted”saus·age nounChineseSyllable
with a tube mixture Corpus small of filled skin a
sausage
saus‧age S3 /ˈsɒsɪdʒ $ ˈsɒː-/
noun [uncountable and countable]
pork sausages
2. not a sausage! British English old-fashioned informal nothing at all:
‘Have you heard from Tom yet?’ ‘No, not a sausage!’
saus‧age S3 /ˈsɒsɪdʒ $ ˈsɒː-/
noun [uncountable and countable] Date: 1400-1500
Language: Old North French
Origin: saussiche, from Late Latin salsicia, from Latin salsus 'salted'
1. a small tube of skin filled with a mixture of meat, spices etc, eaten hot or cold after it has been cooked:Language: Old North French
Origin: saussiche, from Late Latin salsicia, from Latin salsus 'salted'
2. not a sausage! British English old-fashioned informal nothing at all:
