liberty sausage
Syllables: lib·er·ty sau·sage/ˌlɪb.ə.tiː ˈsɔː.sɪd͡ʒ/US/ˌlɪb.əɹ.ti ˈsɔ.sɪd͡ʒ/
liberty sausage noun: a frankfurter.
Noun
liberty sausage (plural liberty sausages)
- A frankfurter.
- Nearby, a boy in a tweed reefer sold frankfurters (though they couldn’t, of course, be called that any longer). “Liberty sausages!” cried the boy from his cart.2007 January 3, Michael Lowenthal, “Two”, in Charity Girl, 1. edition (fiction), Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2007, →ISBN, page 10, lines 11–13
Forms of liberty sausage
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Origin of liberty sausage
Coined during wartime because of antipathy toward the Germans and their language; see liberty cabbage.
Questions about liberty sausage
- What does liberty sausage mean?
- Liberty sausage means a frankfurter.
- What part of speech is liberty sausage?
- Liberty sausage is a noun.
- How do you pronounce liberty sausage?
- Liberty sausage is pronounced /ˌlɪb.ə.tiː ˈsɔː.sɪd͡ʒ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of liberty sausage?
- The plural of liberty sausage is liberty sausages.
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