Saucisses

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Links of ground meat, typically seasoned and encased in a skin, prepared for cooking or consumption ; Cylindrical pieces of spiced meat product often grilled or fried as a food item ; Processed meat formed into tubular shapes, commonly made from pork or other meats, used in various culinary dishes
2. Small, seasoned meat tubes usually encased in intestine or synthetic casing, served cooked or raw depending on type ; Spiced ground meat cylinders, commonly eaten as breakfast or in sandwiches ; Prepared meat formed into link shapes, frequently cooked by grilling, frying, or boiling in meals
3. Meat mixture compacted into tube-like forms, seasoned and encased for cooking ; Savory links of ground meat, shaped and spiced, often part of Western cuisine ; Cylindrical bundles of minced meat, traditionally encased to maintain shape, cooked for human consumption

Etymology: "Saucisses" is simply the plural of "saucisse", the French word for sausage, and the form you see when the French noun appears in English text as a plural. The singular "saucisse" was borrowed from French, where it means sausage, and it is a doublet of the English word "sausage". The two words descend from the same ancestor, but they reached modern English by different routes, so English ended up with both a native-feeling "sausage" and a French-flavoured "saucisse" that carries the same core meaning.