Meanings
plural Kranskies · alternative kransky
- 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 1684 more examples
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 245Old-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 pageSynonyms: kielbasa
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA Slovenian-style sausage.
Origin
- SloveneKrȃnjskā klobasa“Carnolian sausage”
- EnglishKransky
Borrowed from Slovene Krȃnjskā klobasa (“Carnolian sausage”).
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