different between sausage vs frankfurter

English

Etymology

From late Middle English sausige, from Anglo-Norman saussiche (compare Norman saûciche), from Late Latin sals?cia (compare Spanish salchicha, Italian salsiccia), neuter plural of sals?cius (“seasoned with salt”), derivative of Latin salsus (“salted”), from sal (“salt”). More at salt. Doublet of saucisse. See also Sicilian sausizza.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?s?d??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?s?d??/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /?s?s?d??/

Noun

sausage (countable and uncountable, plural sausages)

1. A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a section of the animal's intestine, or in a similarly cylindrical shaped synthetic casing; a length of this food.
2. A sausage-shaped thing.
3. (vulgar slang) Penis.
4. (informal) A term of endearment.
5. (military, archaic) A saucisse.

Hypernyms

• food
• foodstuff

Hyponyms

Coordinate terms

• allantois
• haggis
• kishka
• kishke
• pudding
• toad-in-the-hole

Related terms

Translations

Verb

sausage (third-person singular simple present sausages, present participle sausaging, simple past and past participle sausaged)

1. (engineering) To form a sausage-like shape, with a non-uniform cross section.

References

• sausage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• List of sausages at Wikipedia

Anagrams

• assuage

English

Etymology

From German Frankfurter, the adjectival form of Frankfurt. Specifically, a reference to Frankfurt-am-Main.

Noun

frankfurter (plural frankfurters)

1. (Britain, US, Canada) A moist sausage of soft, even texture and flavor, often made from mechanically recovered meat or meat slurry.

Synonyms

• (type of sausage): coney island, Coney Island, frank, frankfurt (Australia), hot dog, tube steak, wiener

Derived terms

• -furter

Translations

See also

• sav
• savaloy