Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a sausage.

1821		W.T. Moncrieff Tom and Jerry II vi: What! de turkey widout de sassinger!
1827		Bell’s Life in London 23 Dec. 2/5: Tom Belcher agreed [...] to make ’em a gift of a Turkey [...] with its best friends the sassengers.
1833		Cruikshank & Wight Sun. in London 58: Hot sassengers – all hot!
1837		Marryat Snarleyyow I 202: I’ll kill the brute wherever I find him, and make him into saussingers, just for the pleasure of eating him.
1838		J. Grant Sketches in London 55: Them ’ere saussengers were good ’uns.
1838		‘Paul Pry’ Oddities of London Life I 55: Assailed [...] with the fumes of savoury ‘hot sassingers’.
1841		‘Joe Buggins’ Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 36: There was sassingers and bil’d cows’ livers and taters in nice dripping fried.
1845		D. Corcoran Pickings from N.O. Picayune (1847) 151: I felt like eating a sassenger.
1851		‘How Sally Hooter Got Snake-Bit’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 70: A great big sausenger, ’bout as big as your arm.
1852		Bell’s Life in Sydney 24 July 2/7: Clements, a manufacturer and vendor of ‘sassingers’.
1867		E.B. Christy Box and Cox in Darkey Drama 6 7: I bort a lot of sassengers at de Dutch butcher’s.
1870		C. White Magic Penny in Darkey Drama 5 Act I: joe: (discovers the horns on the other’s head), Well dar, whoeber seed a man wid a pair ob sassengers on his head?
1878		C. Hindley Life and Times of James Catnach 138: Vat’s dat I hears! No sassingers to de turkey?
1884		R.C. Hartranft Journal of Solomon Sidesplitter 118: Is them there sassengers good uns?
1895		Mirror of Life 5 Jan. 11/2: The ‘Holy Land,’ that charmed and almost sacred stronghold of Saint Giles’s, where at the mendicants’ symposium, Rats' Castle, the beggars grumbled if their turkey was served without ‘sassangers’.
1898		J.D. Brayshaw Slum Silhouettes 59: She cooks sossingers a treat.
1899		Kipling ‘The Flag of Their Country’ Complete Stalky & Co. (1987) 205: Let’s go down to Keyte’s and get some cocoa and sassingers.
1899		E.W. Rogers [perf. T.E. Dunville] ‘All One Price’ 🎵 Hair cut, billiards, or a sassidge what say, you want a lady massage?
1908		Sun. Times (Perth) 26 July. 65/3: Even slink sossidges at 5d. cash are 25 per cent dearer .
1911		Gem 30 Sept. 9: Towser seemed to like the sossingers.
1914		Truth (Melbourne) 12 Dec. 6/6: [He] did sell chip potato / Likewise of the sassinger.
1944		Western Dly Press (Bristol) 4 Mar. 3/4: Two waistcoat buttons [...] had hidden themselves in an ‘all pork’ sassinger.

2. a German, also attrib.

1889		Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 6 July 6/2: The Sassenger Party drowned his insult about three fathoms deep in the gentle beer .
1914		Dreadnought 5 Sept. 8/1: What are you doing with that Sossidger’s war-hat on? I took you for a German.