sausage roll
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- noun
- /ˈsɔːsɪdʒ roʊl/
- UK
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empanada de salchicha
- Here comes the sausage roll. OK, load it up. Grab a bite. World's best sausage roll about to get destroyed?
- order a sausage roll
He was at home eating sausage rolls and thingy.
- He was at home eating sausage rolls and thingy.
- Oh, man, this is a sausage roll, y'all?
- When I go camping, I'm going to bring a sausage roll.
- He looks like an undercooked Greg sausage roll with nipple tassels on anybody.
Examples
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I love to munch on a hot sausage roll during the football match.
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CUT TO: INT: Riepers' House/Dining Room - Day. The table is laid with plates of sausage rolls and sandwiches.
Fiction book (1994) -
The sausage roll is cold.
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We deserve a bottle of beer and a sausage roll for that alone.
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Could you go and get me some sausage rolls?
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I'm gonna have another sausage roll
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After searching around some more, he went into a cafe and ordered a sausage roll and a cup of coffee.
Fiction book (2002) -
Mike Frazier reaches under his seat and pulls out his bag of sausage rolls and a thermos.
Fiction book (1996) -
A local family lent us their truck for us to use as a moving van, and our new neighbors supplied us with sausage rolls and cake (gotta love country hospitality).
Blog text (32) -
While Kenny bends over the boat's edge to start gathering them in, Mike reaches into his coat and pulls out the bag with the sausage rolls.
Fiction book (1996)
How Filling
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a baked food consisting of sausage meat rolled in pastry' is directly and compositionally derived from 'sausage' (meat) + 'roll' (something rolled or a baked roll), so a learner who knows both words can infer a roll containing sausage. This is a common noun–noun compound pattern in English (and paralleled in many languages), making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Sausage roll comes from the simple picture of cooked sausage meat wrapped in a thin roll of pastry, like a small meat roll you can hold. So the name today means 'a sausage wrapped in pastry' and the snack you buy at bakeries.