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wurst

UK/wɜːst/US/wɝst/

wurst noun: a German- or Austrian-style sausage.

Noun

wurst (countable and uncountable, plural wursts or (rare) würste)

  1. A German- or Austrian-style sausage.
    • If you pick up a package of liverwurst (German wurst, sausage), you may find that it contains, in addition to liver, nonfat dry milk, salt, corn syrup, flavorings (unspecified), sodium erythrobate, sodium nitrate, sodium nitrite, gelatin, and dextrose. The list reads like a list of chemicals for a...1975, John W[illiam] Hill, “Food: A Collage of Chemicals”, in Chemistry for Changing Times, 2nd edition, Minneapolis, Minn.: Burgess Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 251
    • We had a long walk ahead to Stuttgart. We stopped to eat at a little meat market just outside Augsburg. I bought a loaf of bread and chose a couple of packages of wurst. It really was good.1973, Sammy Tippit, as told to Jerry Jenkins, “With God in Germany”, in Sammy Tippit: God’s Love in Action, Chicago, Ill.: Moody Press, published 1976, →ISBN, page 117

Examples of wurst in a sentence

  • If you wish to avoid “chemicals” in your food, wurst is one of the worst things you can buy.1975, John W[illiam] Hill, “Food: A Collage of Chemicals”, in Chemistry for Changing Times, 2nd edition, Minneapolis, Minn.: Burgess...
  • Although the supermarket tannoy was bravely broadcasting Rigoletto, its meat counter was thick with wurst and its wine shelves loaded with Liebfraumilch.1987, Christina Hardyment, “Harlekins and Gondolas”, in Heidi’s Alp: One Family’s Search for Storybook Europe, Book Club edition, New York...
  • At an open-air flea market, we looked for Nazi memorabilia while munching wurst and drinking beer.2009, Tom Davis, “Incidents and Coincidence: Death Camps, Franken, and the Beatles”, in Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss: The...
  • You can fill up your platter with some of the best wursts and roast meats (especially the delectable pork), along with freshly made salads.2011, Dardis McNamee, Frommer's Austria:

Forms of wurst

pluralwursts
alternative formwürst
plural (rare)würste

Origin of wurst

First attested in 1890. Borrowed from German Wurst (“sausage, wurst”), from Middle High German wurst, from Old High German wurst, from Proto-West Germanic *wursti (“something turned or twisted”), from Proto-Indo-European *wert-, *werd- (“to turn”). Akin to Old Saxon worst (“wurst”), Old English weorþan (“to turn, become”). Doublet of wors. Unrelated to worsted (“type of yarn”). More at worth (“to be, become, betide”).

Words formed from wurst

Words that rhyme with wurst

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Questions about wurst

What does wurst mean?
Wurst means a German- or Austrian-style sausage.
How do you use wurst in a sentence?
If you wish to avoid “chemicals” in your food, wurst is one of the worst things you can buy.
What part of speech is wurst?
Wurst is a noun.
How do you pronounce wurst?
Wurst is pronounced /wɝst/ (US).
What is the plural of wurst?
The plural of wurst is wursts.

Words near wurst in the dictionary

  1. wurrups
  2. wurship
  3. wurshipped
  4. wurshipping
  5. wurships
  6. wurst
  7. Wurster
  8. Wurster's blue
  9. Wursters
  10. wursts
  11. Wurth

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