Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A smoked sausage of beef or beef and pork made in long reddish links.
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- noun UK, US, Canada A moist
sausage of soft, even texture and flavor, often made from mechanically recovered meat or meat slurry.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And the old term frankfurter -- well, it's still around, but hotdog is our standard term.
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In the letter, he calls the frankfurter mix-up a "terrible mistake."
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Well, I wasn’t disappointed with this mistake for they were wonderful and we ordered them again and again after they explained that this is what they called a frankfurter, but when I tried to order some from the Polish Shop, they tried to give me a regular frankfurter.
At My Table 2008
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Well, I wasn’t disappointed with this mistake for they were wonderful and we ordered them again and again after they explained that this is what they called a frankfurter, but when I tried to order some from the Polish Shop, they tried to give me a regular frankfurter.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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The hand that continues to swab mustard on the frankfurter is a comic gem-a bonus, maybe, for anyone who struggled with the sudden swerve.
DeLillo Pretentious? Stupid? Literary Pugilists Throw Punches 2002
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The hand that continues to swab mustard on the frankfurter is a comic gem-a bonus, maybe, for anyone who struggled with the sudden swerve.
DeLillo Pretentious? Stupid? Literary Pugilists Throw Punches 2002
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"Hot dog" is a nickname for the workers 'or street food made popular by German immigrants, earlier known as the frankfurter (Frankfurt-style sausage).
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"Hot dog" is a nickname for the workers 'or street food made popular by German immigrants, earlier known as the frankfurter (Frankfurt-style sausage).
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I am eating a frankfurter with their mustard and horseradish even as I write these words.
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Sarah Karnasiewicz on Lunch Break has a baker's guide to classic molded holiday cookies - springerle, gingerbread and frankfurter brenten - that are drop-dead gorgeous and deceptively easy to make.
Wunderbar Cookies Sarah Karnasiewicz 2011
hernesheir commented on the word frankfurter
"...often made from mechanically recovered meat or meat slurry." -- Wiktionary.
April 26, 2011
reesetee commented on the word frankfurter
The words "meat" and "slurry" should never come within 20 feet of one another.
April 26, 2011