blood sausage
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4.1
- noun
- /blʌd ˈsɔsɪdʒ/
:
morcilla
- I need a blood sausage and hash browns.
- blood sausage known as morcilla
- blood sausage and pork
- pudding and blood sausage
Examples
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My favorite new food acquisitions are Portuguese cod tongue and eggs, Spanish blood sausage (if you can find morcilla enchorizada, do it!).
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I remember my grandmother standing at the stove, stirring a huge pot of blood to make blood sausage.
Blog text (14) -
Any more of that blood sausage left?
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So she was making sure that there would be enough sugar pie, blood sausage, and meat loaf.
Fiction book (1994) -
Blood sausages are really good, and I have a recipe.
Blog text (25) -
When I did try blood sausage, I could not get past the idea that it would taste bad, which was firmly lodged in my mind.
Blog text (15) -
It's Bavarian blood sausage, with sauerkraut.
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I drank a lot of orange juice, then tackled some scrambled eggs accompanied by some fried blood sausage, the local specialty.
Fiction book (1999) -
Would you like to try some traditional blood sausage served with onions and mustard?
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In Germany, blood sausage is often eaten with potatoes and sauerkraut.
Synonyms
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6.7
A dark sausage made from pig's blood, fat, and oatmeal that people cook and eat
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6.5
A dark sausage made with pig's blood, fat, and oats that you cook and eat
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9.9
A German sausage made from pork and blood with spices
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'blood sausage' is compositionally transparent: the nouns 'blood' and 'sausage' directly describe a sausage made with blood, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the meaning. The same concept exists in many languages (e.g., 'morcilla', 'Blutwurst', 'boudin noir'), which further supports predictability.
Etymology
Blood sausage comes from the literal idea that it is a sausage made by cooking animal blood mixed with fat and spices inside a skin. That's why the name points to the main ingredient and today it means 'a sausage made with blood'.