Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A smoked pork or beef sausage similar to a frankfurter.

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  • noun Vienna sausage

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  • noun a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[German : Wiener, of Vienna, Austria + Wurst, sausage; see wurst.]

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German Wienerwurst, from Wien ("Vienna") + Wurst ("sausage").

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Examples

  • The word "wiener" is an American bastardization of wienerwurst, German for Vienna sausage.

    Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Weiner Roast Chris Weigant 2011

  • The word "wiener" is an American bastardization of wienerwurst, German for Vienna sausage.

    Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Weiner Roast Chris Weigant 2011

  • Each time the ringmaster shouted his call of “Men up!” he lumbered ferociously for Betty with the cardboard wienerwurst or the photograph of the bearded lady or whatever the favor chanced to be.

    Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

  • Also it was Saturday night, and in a couple of hours would come a violin and a cornet, and in the rear part of the saloon the families of the neighborhood would dance and feast upon wienerwurst and lager, until two or three o'clock in the morning.

    The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923

  • Each time the ringmaster shouted his call of "Men up!" he lumbered ferociously for Betty with the cardboard wienerwurst or the photograph of the bearded lady or whatever the favor chanced to be.

    Tales of the Jazz Age 1922

  • Each time the ringmaster shouted his call of "Men up!" he lumbered ferociously for Betty with the cardboard wienerwurst or the photograph of the bearded lady or whatever the favor chanced to be.

    Tales of the Jazz Age 1918

  • He seemed to tower over the pitcher -- Red was six feet one -- and he scowled and shook his bat at Wehying and called, "Put one over -- you wienerwurst!"

    The Redheaded Outfield 1915

  • He was waitin 'at the station for me, with a high-wheeled cart, and a couple of gingery circus horses hitched one in front of the other like two links of wienerwurst.

    Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

  • It juts out from the middle of his face like the handle of a lovin 'cup, and with his habit of stretchin' his neck forward he always seems to be followin 'a scent, like one of these wienerwurst retrievers.

    Torchy, Private Sec. Sewell Ford 1907

  • "Maybe you've been makin 'a noise like a wienerwurst," says I.

    Torchy Sewell Ford 1907

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