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sausage-like

sausage-like

3.6
Long and rounded like a small tube
  • adjective
  • /ˈsɔsɪdʒ laɪk/
translation icon : en forma de salchicha
  • The arm connected to it was fat and sausage-like, too, as if filled with water.
  • sausage-like finger

And then they fashion it into an appendage that looks like, yeah, the sausage like shape.

Examples

  • But instead of striking, he unholstered his cell phone and hit number one on the auto dial, squinting hard as he struck the tiny key with a big, sausage-like finger.

  • "Madame Anaya's right hand, dangling off the chair arm, stirred, and she pointed with a sausage-like finger at her purse, which, so black and bulging it seemed her familiar, rested beside the chair.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • Madame Anaya's right hand, dangling off the chair arm, stirred, and she pointed with a sausage-like finger at her purse, which, so black and bulging it seemed her familiar, rested beside the chair.

Synonyms

sausage-shaped
vssausage-like
3.7

A long round shape with rounded ends like a small tube

is the same meaning but is the more common or casual adjective
botuliform
vssausage-like
  • Specialized
9.9

Having the shape of a long sausage with rounded ends

focuses more on cylindrical cross section than on length
allantoid
vssausage-like
  • Specialized
9.9

Shaped like a long, slightly curved sausage

is the everyday, non-technical way to say this shape

How Cylindrical

cylindrical
12 4.0
tubular
11 5.1
sausage-like
3.6
rounded
1 2.4

Surface Forms

sausage-like positive

Morphology

sausage-like = sausage (transparent) = sausage + like

The meaning is directly compositional: 'sausage' plus '-like' means resembling a sausage in shape or appearance.

Etymology

Sausage-like comes from sausage (from an old Latin word that meant 'salted', because sausages were preserved with salt) plus the ending -like meaning 'similar to', so something sausage-like is long and rounded in shape, like a sausage.