word-vault/dist/data/cards/sa/sausage.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "sausage",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a mixture of meat, fat, bread, etc. cut into small pieces, put into a long tube of skin, cooked and eaten whole or served cold in thin slices",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**beef/pork sausages**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "200g of garlic sausage"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Food"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["blood", "garlic", "pork"],
                "verb + sausage": ["eat", "have", "cook"],
                "sausage + verb": ["sizzle"],
                "sausage + noun": ["meat", "skin", "link"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "nothing at all",
            "labels": "(British English, old-fashioned, informal)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsɒsɪdʒ/",
                "audio": "sa/sausage/sausage__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsɔːsɪdʒ/",
                "audio": "sa/sausage/sausage__us_1_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old Northern French saussiche, from medieval Latin salsicia, from Latin salsus ‘salted’, past participle of salere ‘to salt’, from sal ‘salt’."
}