different between sausage vs friand

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

A borrowing from French.

Pronunciation

Noun

friand (plural friands)

1. (Australia, New Zealand) A type of cake, similar to the French financier, but with the addition of fruits or other flavourings; commonly eaten with coffee.
   • 2005, Amanda Hampson, The Olive Sisters, unnumbered page,

     I lug my stuff out to the ute and drive out of this lovely surburb with its old trees and young cafés, espresso and friands, poodles and BMWs.

   • 2007, Charles Firth, American Hoax, page 140,

     I decided to try a bite of Bertrand?s friand. I instantly spat it out.

   • 2011, Lisa Walker, Liar Bird, unnumbered page,

     So now, I rearranged the friands, made sure the coffee was hot and tidied the stack of course notes I?d arranged on the welcoming table.

   • 2011, Julia Thomas, Cake Angels: Amazing Gluten, Wheat and Dairy Free Cakes, unnumbered page,

     Blueberry & lemon friands

     If you have never heard of friands, then you are in for a treat. They originate from Australia and are cousins of the French Financiers, the delicious moist egg-white cakes.

2. A sausage roll, eaten in France.

French

Etymology

See frire

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?i.j??/

Adjective

friand (feminine singular friande, masculine plural friands, feminine plural friandes)

1. cultured, having good taste
2. (of food) delicious, tasty

Noun

friand m (plural friands)

1. friand (a sausage wrapped in puff pastry)

Further reading

• “friand” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).