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frankfurt en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio

Etymology

From German Frankfurt. Compare frankfurter.

Meanings

1. (Australia, US) A frankfurter; a hot dog sausage.
   • As a kid in the 50s, (before we became infested with the current mish-mash of liquorice allsorts) pork fritz, devon, sliced ham, frankfurts, pork sausages...were all about as common a staple as you care to name. Even the Italians and Greeks of the time ate (and continue to eat) the stuff!! 2003 June 10, smithxpj, “Ham banned in Broadmeadows”, in aus.consumers (Usenet):
   • Frankfurts of the highest quality are prepared generally from a mixture of approximately half beef and half pork. 1942, Robert Byron Hinman, Robert Bernard Harris, The Story of Meat, page 137:
   • Sample of frankfurts procured from Stanley Kwiatkowski, Grand Rapids, Mich. Contains excessive amount of cereal. 1919, Michigan Office of Dairy and Food Commissioner, Annual report of the Dairy and Food Commissioner of the State of Michigan, volume 25, page 81:

Forms

Deriveds

cocktail frankfurt

Relateds

savaloy · sav

Synonyms

frank · frankfurter