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Viennese sausage en · NOUN

Etymology

Calque of German Wienerwurst.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Synonym 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 43:
   • These 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 2026:
   • 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 2015:

Forms

Synonyms

Vienna sausage