sausage

noun

• 1an item of food in the form of a cylindrical length of minced pork or other meat encased in a skin, typically sold raw to be grilled or fried before eating.
• [mass noun] minced and seasoned meat encased in a skin and cooked or preserved, sold mainly to be eaten cold in slices:smoked German sausage
• [usually as modifier] an object shaped like a sausage:her hair hung in glossy black sausage curls

• 2British used as an affectionate form of address, especially to a child:‘Silly sausage,’ he teased