sausage-like
- adjective
- /ˈsɔsɪdʒ laɪk/
- 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.
- 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
A long round shape with rounded ends like a small tube
Having the shape of a long sausage with rounded ends
Shaped like a long, slightly curved sausage
How Cylindrical
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.