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A wiener is a thin sausage, often beef or pork, usually served grilled or boiled in a bun.
means A slender, skin-cased sausage of beef or pork (or both), typically grilled or boiled and tucked into a bun — the thing you call a hot dog once it's dressed up.
from From German 'Wiener Würstchen,' literally 'Vienna sausage' — 'Wiener' just means 'of Vienna.' The sausage traveled to America with German-speaking immigrants in the 1800s, where it got shortened to 'wiener' and eventually nicknamed 'hot dog,' possibly from old jokes about what mystery meat might really be in there.
- name origin
- short for Wiener Würstchen, Viennese sausage
- vienna's revenge
- austrians call it a frankfurter instead
- dog breed link
- dachshund nicknamed wiener dog for shape, not diet
- slang shift
- became american euphemism purely by sound, not design