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Vienna sausage

Vienna sausage noun: a kind of smoked link sausage.

vienna sausage: a kind of smoked link sausage
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Noun

Vienna sausage (countable and uncountable, plural Vienna sausages)

  1. A kind of smoked link sausage.
    • Spicy but delicate Vienna sausages are eaten with various dishes such as sauerkraut or as a snack by themselves, with or without relish.
    • For Sunday night supper simmer a can or two of Vienna sausage (those of midget cocktail size) in a spicy barbecue sauce for a quarter of an hour.1950 June 20, “News of Food: Broiled, Frozen Lobster Now Comes Ready to Eat After Brisk Heating for the Cook’s Notebook”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN...

Synonyms of Vienna sausage

Forms of Vienna sausage

pluralVienna sausages

Origin of Vienna sausage

A calque of German Wienerwurst (“Viennese sausage”); compare the borrowed form wienerwurst.

Questions about Vienna sausage

What does Vienna sausage mean?
Vienna sausage means a kind of smoked link sausage.
What part of speech is Vienna sausage?
Vienna sausage is a noun.
What is the plural of Vienna sausage?
The plural of Vienna sausage is Vienna sausages.

Words near Vienna sausage in the dictionary

  1. Vienna loaves
  2. Vienna paste
  3. Vienna pastes
  4. Vienna roll
  5. Vienna rolls
  6. Vienna sausage
  7. Vienna sausages
  8. Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water
  9. Vienna white
  10. Vienne
  11. Vienneau

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