Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A short, thick, highly seasoned sausage.
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- noun A highly seasoned
scalded sausage made from beef, pork, and fatty tissue similar to afrankfurter , but shorter and thicker.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun short thick highly seasoned sausage
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Women seem directed towards them more than men – in recent years alone, shiny leggings, which make the most svelte 17-year-old girl look as if she's walking on two overstuffed knackwurst, and the harem pant, a trouser any rational society would put behind bars to prevent harm coming to the public.
Alexis Petridis: Heavy irony Alexis Petridis 2010
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Lunch might find us at a tavern washing down bratwurst, kielbasa and knackwurst with pints of beer.
Little Country, Big Impact Kathy Reichs 2011
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Anyway, after spending five weeks eating (and loving) bratwurst, knackwurst, liverwurst, Braunschweiger, and sauerkraut, I decided to make a few changes.
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Later immigrants introduced novelties from other nationalities: knackwurst, pizzas and hamburgers are fully assimilated by now.
Rio De Janeiro 2007
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In France the wretched angry fulminating hero has come to be as common in bookshops as choucroute garnie in restaurants — despairing sauerkraut, a side dish to the knackwurst of middle-class Prometheanism.
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In France the wretched angry fulminating hero has come to be as common in bookshops as choucroute garnie in restaurants — despairing sauerkraut, a side dish to the knackwurst of middle-class Prometheanism.
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In general, we preferred those with deeper char -- kielbasa, knackwurst, and weisswurst -- to those without.
Augieland: 2006
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In general, we preferred those with deeper char -- kielbasa, knackwurst, and weisswurst -- to those without.
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CAFFERTY: Probably getting you and old knackwurst, if you know where to look over there.
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That sausage is lundaknake, a pungent type of pork and beef knackwurst made only here, and only by Holmgrens & Company.
NYT > Home Page By RUSS JUSKALIAN 2011
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