kielbasa

• (uncommon) kielbasy, kolbasa, kovbasa
• (rare) kielbassi, kolbasi, kolbassi, kolbasy

From Polish kiełbasa, from a Proto-Slavic word which may derive from Proto-Turkic *kül bastï. See kiełbasa and its Ukrainian cognate ковбаса (kovbasá, “sausage, kubasa”) for more information.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkɪlˈbɑ.sə/,[1][2][3] IPA^(key): /ˌkilˈbɑ.sə/,[1][2] IPA^(key): /ˌkɪˈbɑ.sə/[2]
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌkiːlˈbɑ.sə/[3]
• (Polish pronunciation) IPA^(key): [kʲɛwˈbasa]

kielbasa (plural kielbasas or kielbasy)

1. A spicy, smoked sausage of a particular kind.
   • 1994 July 21, Faye Fiore, “Congress relishes another franking privilege: Meat lobby puts on the dog with exclusive luncheon for lawmakers – experts on pork”, in Los Angeles Times‎:

     Congressmen gleefully wolfed down every imaginable version of the hot dog – smoked kielbasas, jumbo grillers, Big & Juicy's, kosher dogs and spiced dogs […]

2. (slang) Penis.

• (food): Polish sausage (informal)

• kielbasa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• “kielbasa” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “kielbasa” in Frederic Gomes Cassidy, Joan Houston Hall (1985), Dictionary of American Regional English, p 212, Harvard University Press, →ISBN.

From Polish kiełbasa

kielbasa m or f (plural kielbasas)

1. kielbasa (Polish sausage)

• saucisse polonaise (informal)