Definitions

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  • noun US A blood sausage, blood pudding

Etymologies

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Borrowing from German Blutwurst, from Blut ("blood") + Wurst ("sausage").

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Examples

  • For the Schlachtfest, Stralsunders gathered in hundreds, the women in their dirndls and men in old-fashioned suits, gobbling pig knuckle, leberwurst, knockwurst, dozens of waxy, greasy boiled potatoes, and of course, blutwurst.

    Blood Lite II: Overbite Kevin J. Anderson 2010

  • An wile ai am willing to trai teh debiled kid kneez, ai draw teh lion at blutwurst.

    Sry. We not interested in ur - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • The Germans also dispensed uncooked rations for the kriegies to prepare in their makeshift kitchens: worm-infested potatoes, margarine that looked like axle grease, and blutwurst, a sausage made from onions and congealed animal blood.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • The Germans also dispensed uncooked rations for the kriegies to prepare in their makeshift kitchens: worm-infested potatoes, margarine that looked like axle grease, and blutwurst, a sausage made from onions and congealed animal blood.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • And here in Cologne, I had a plate of blutwurst with mashed potato mixed with cooked apple, and a hefty dollop of fiery German mustard.

    Archive 2004-12-01 Niki 2004

  • And here in Cologne, I had a plate of blutwurst with mashed potato mixed with cooked apple, and a hefty dollop of fiery German mustard.

    Himmel und erde Niki 2004

  • That the Germans eat six regular meals a day, and between times stave off their appetite with numerous Schweitzer cheese sandwiches, blutwurst and beer.

    The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind George Jean Nathan 1920

  • For the ruffianish pages of Jack London, the pungent, hospitable smell of a first-class bar-room -- that indescribable mingling of Maryland rye, cigar smoke, stale malt liquor, radishes, potato salad and _blutwurst_.

    Damn! A Book of Calumny 1918

  • There were all sorts of things in the waggons -- food and corn, to which I allowed our men to help themselves, for our horses were short of oats and our men of rations, and some of the tinned meats, "gulasch" and "blutwurst," were quite excellent and savoury, much more so than our everlasting bully beef.

    The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 Edward Gleichen 1900

  • Ten or twenty million Germans lost their ancestral lands and never was even a harmless homemade blutwurst

    Mangan's 2009

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