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sausage maker

sausage maker

3.3
A small machine that fills sausage casings with meat
  • noun
  • /ˈsɔsɪdʒ ˈmeɪkər/
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  • She demonstrated how to use the sausage maker to create different flavors of sausage.

Examples

  • The sausage maker easily filled the casing with the seasoned meat mixture.

  • My grandmother still uses a vintage sausage maker to prepare homemade sausages.

  • The old-fashioned sausage maker takes some effort to operate, but produces delicious results.

  • We bought an electric sausage maker for the kitchen to speed up the process.

  • I bought a new sausage maker last week.

  • Have you ever used a sausage maker?

  • At the festival, local sausage makers showcased their tools and techniques for crafting their products.

Synonyms

sausage stuffer
vssausage maker
  • Specialized
1 5.1

A device that pushes ground meat into casings to make sausages

is the same device but highlights being a small hand press

How Big

sausage maker
3.3
sausage stuffer
  • Specialized
1 5.1

Surface Forms

sausage maker singular
sausage makers plural

Morphology

sausage + maker

The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'sausage' (the food) with 'maker' (a person or device that makes something), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it is a person or device that makes sausages. This noun+noun compounding is a productive, cross-linguistic pattern in English, making the expression immediately comprehensible from its parts.

Etymology

The noun sausage maker comes from the simple idea of something that makes a sausage. Picture a small hand press pushing spiced meat into a long skin — the maker is the tool (or person) that 'makes' the sausage, so the name means 'a device used to stuff sausage meat into a casing'.