Kransky

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noun

A Slovenian-style sausage.

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Meanings

nounKransky (plural Kranskies)

plural Kranskies · alternative kransky

  1. AustraliaNew ZealandA Slovenian-style sausage.

    At a food vendor's stall I bought a Kransky to munch on as Sally and I walked through the cavernous terminal...

    2006, Ernie Palamarek, Along Came a Swagman, page 168
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    Just frying up a shitload of blinis. Fried up some kranskies to put on them. Just trying to figure out which vodka to drink with them. It's a tough life.

    1998, Timo Nieminen, “blinis”, in alt.drunken.bastards (Usenet)

    The afternoon before making cheese kranskies, the butcher cuts the meat into large cubes. He uses a mixture of pork and beef. The cheese is cut into cubes and the correct amounts of spices are measured out.

    2007, Carol Jones, “Sausage”, in Education, Australia: Macmillan, page 12

    ...making a cut along and through the underside of the penis as far as the urethra, a bit like preparing a Kransky sausage for pan-frying.

    2010, Nicholas Evans, Dying words: endangered languages and what they have to tell us, page 245

    Old-fashioned things are back at this main street butcher, where you can buy relishes and sauerkraut to go with your kranskies.

    2012, Elizabeth Meryment, K. Gibbs, Foodies′ Guide 2012: Sydney, unnumbered page

    Synonyms: kielbasa

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA Slovenian-style sausage.

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Origin

  1. SloveneKrȃnjskā klobasa“Carnolian sausage”
  2. EnglishKransky

Borrowed from Slovene Krȃnjskā klobasa (“Carnolian sausage”).

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