Meaning & use
sausage feast
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Meanings
nouncountable
A meal or party where sausages are the main food, often eaten outdoors or as a casual celebration.
Grammar: Countable: you can say 'a sausage feast' or 'two sausage feasts'. The plural adds -s to 'feast' only.
Patterns
- a sausage feast
- hold a sausage feast
- at a sausage feast
The village held a sausage feast in the square every August.
We turned the barbecue into a sausage feast with six different kinds.
Everyone brought something, so it became an accidental sausage feast.
nounsingularinformal
A large, generous amount or variety of sausages served together.
Grammar: Used with 'a' to suggest plenty: 'a real sausage feast'. It is not usually plural in this sense.
Patterns
- a real sausage feast
- a sausage feast of something
The platter arrived as a real sausage feast, enough for four people.
For a quick dinner, he made a sausage feast with peppers and bread.
Word forms
| plural | sausage feasts |
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Common combinations
- hold a sausage feast
- The club holds a sausage feast at the end of every season.
- a real sausage feast
- With ten varieties on the grill, it was a real sausage feast.
- annual sausage feast
- Their annual sausage feast attracts people from nearby towns.
- sausage feast with friends
- We had a simple sausage feast with friends in the garden.
Synonyms and how they differ
Word family
Commonly confused: sausage feast or sausage fest?
sausage feast vs sausage fest
Informal slang with a very different, often crude meaning (an event with mostly men). 'Sausage feast' simply refers to a meal of sausages.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'sausage feast' most naturally?
Choose one answer.
'Sausage feast' is a countable noun phrase, so it fits after 'had' as the thing you ate. The other options use it as a verb, a moving subject, or an adjective, which the phrase cannot be.
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