Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small sausage resembling a frankfurter, often served as an hors d'oeuvre.
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- noun The
smoked link sausage typewiener (short forwienerwurst ), associated with the Austrian capitalVienna .
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- noun short slender frankfurter usually with ends cut off
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Vienna.]
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A purist rendering of wienerwurst, from German Wiener 'Viennese' (from Wien 'Vienna', from Latin Vienna) + Wurst 'sausage'.
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