Sausage fingers

[Benjamin Barrett]

An acquaintance working on a Japanese/English dictionary project (available
for free on the Web at http://www.alc.co.jp/eijiro/) asks about the
expression "sausage fingers."

After a search on Alta Vista, I perused several pages that (besides the
medical condition) seemed to indicate that sausage fingers are stubby =
short and fat.

A comparison of that conclusion to her examples seemed to fit except for the
final citation:

Painter , a ridiculous spoof video by Paul McCarthy (1995), has a
loony-looking person bashing about with elongated sausage fingers
and extended nose".

Is this an extension of sausage fingers, simply puffy-looking long fingers,
or something else again?

Opinions or useful citations welcomed.

Benjamin Barrett
gogaku at ix.netcom.com

Other citations provided:

He picked up a newspaper clipping between his stained sausage fingers
and handed it to her.

His sausage fingers are laced across his double-breasted vest as he
lounges in a high-backed leather swivel chair, beaming at two
expressionless employees: Samantha Whatley and Timothy Cone.

The thick, sausage fingers came up with the two fifty-dollar bills
Khysha had just earned from Earl Craddock, Jr, of Little Rock, Arkansas.'

Why Dance was looking up numbers in a telephone directory, and why Harry
pawed at his coat with sausage fingers.