Sausage vs Egg - What's the difference?
sausage | egg |
A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a cylindrical casing; a length of this food.
A sausage-shaped thing.
(slang) Penis.
A term of endearment.
A saucisse.
(zoology, countable) An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, snakes, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development.
(countable) The egg of a domestic fowl as an item of food.
(uncountable) The contents of one or more (hen's usually) eggs as a culinary ingredient, etc.
(biology, countable) The female primary cell, the ovum.
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, title= Anything shaped like an egg, such as an Easter egg or a chocolate egg.
A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, associated with an injury.
(mildly, pejorative, slang, ethnic slur), (potentially offensive) A person of Caucasian (Western) ancestry, who has a strong desire to learn about and immerse him- or herself in East Asian culture, and/or such a person who is perceived as behaving as if he or she were Asian (from the "white" outside and "yellow" inside).
(NZ, pejorative) A foolish or obnoxious person.
In terms such as good egg'', ''bad egg'', ''tough egg etc., a person, fellow.
To throw eggs at.
To dip in or coat with beaten egg (cooking).
To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently or intentionally.
As nouns the difference between sausage and egg
is that sausage is a food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a cylindrical casing; a length of this food while egg is (zoology|countable) an approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, snakes, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development.As a verb egg is
to throw eggs at or egg can be to encourage, incite.sausage
English
Noun
- my little sausage
- Silly sausage .
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Derived terms
* blood sausage * Cumberland sausage * farmer's sausage * garlic sausage * hot dog sausage * lamb sausage * liver sausage * play hide the sausage * Polish sausage * sausage dog * sausage fest * sausage meat * sausage party * sausage roll * sausage tree * sausage meat * Vienna sausageSee also
* allantois * andouille * baloney * banger * black pudding * blood pudding * boerewors * boerie * bologna * boudin * bratwurst * Braunschweiger * cervelat * chipolata * chorizo * cocktail frank * cocktail frankfurt * cocktail sav * cocktail savaloy * cocktail wiener * frank * frankfurt * frankfurter * haggis * kielbasa * kishka, kishke * knackwurst * knockwurst * kubasa * linguica * liverwurst * merguez * mortadella * pepperoni * polony * Portuguese sausage * pudding * salami * sav * saveloy * smokie * snag * toad-in-the-hole * white pudding * wiener * wienerwurst * wurstExternal links
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(wikipedia egg)Etymology 1
From (etyl) egge, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Katrina G. Claw
Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.}}
Verb
(en verb)- After I cut the tubing, I found that I had slightly egged it in the vise.