Meanings
plural Viennese sausages
- countableuncountableSynonym of Vienna sausage.
With a shrug, he returned to foraging through the cupboards and extracted a can of pork and beans, another of Viennese sausage, and still another of tomato soup.
1993 May, Jessica Palmer, chapter 5, in Cradlesong, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 432 more examples
Even with an apartment 10 minutes’ walk from the opera house, Mr. [Seiji] Ozawa, who speaks only rudimentary German, has not gone entirely native. He prefers Japanese food and Italian pasta to Wiener schnitzel and Viennese sausages.
2004 February 15, Alan Riding, “Music: He Got His Opera, Vienna Got Its Maestro”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 May 2015These mini-dogs are proof that the fad for Kobe beef hasn’t bottomed out yet. Why, I ask you, would you want to grind up the well-marbled, fabulously expensive beef and turn it into something resembling a Viennese sausage?
2007 April 5, S. Irene Virbila, “Ketchup — all saucy and cute”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2026Synonyms: Vienna sausage
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of Vienna sausage.
Origin
- GermanWienerwurst
- EnglishViennese sausage
Calque of German Wienerwurst.
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