sausage

«sausage» in Mova's school dictionary: Minced meat (or a vegetarian mix) with spices, put inside… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a sausage, sausages)

meaning for a pupil

1) Minced meat (or a vegetarian mix) with spices, put inside a long thin skin and cooked. tree →

2) Informally, a fond name for a child or pet: "You silly sausage!" tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life sausages are eaten for breakfast, at barbecues, in hot dogs and in "sausage rolls"; in the UK and Ireland "bangers and mash" is sausages with mashed potato. In Australia, a "sausage sizzle" is a barbecue that raises money for schools. Phrases: sausage roll, sausage sizzle, sausage dog (a dachshund), bangers and mash.

examples

• We had sausages on the barbecue. tree →
• Dad bought a pack of eight sausages. tree →
• A sausage sizzle raised money for our school. tree →
• Vegetarian sausages are made without meat. tree →
• Prick the sausages with a fork before cooking. tree →
• Our dachshund is called a sausage dog. tree →
• You silly sausage, you have your shoes on the wrong feet! tree →

note

Countable: a sausage, sausages. Spelling trap: "sausage" has "au" in the middle, said like "SOS-ij". Safety: cook sausages right through so there is no pink inside, to avoid food poisoning. In maths: 3 packs of 8 sausages = 24 sausages.

In the corpora

• A sausage at a barbecue is mostly minced pork, and pork is meat from a pig.
• They hunt and find sardines, biscuits and a sausage.
• A French hot-dog is often a sausage poked into a baguette; the h of hot-dog is not said.
• At many Australian polling places, schools and clubs sell sausages in bread to raise money; people call it the democracy sausage.
• kartOplya means potato, and kOvbasa is a salami-like sausage, while a hot-dog sausage is a sosyska.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sausage» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.