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liberty sausage en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˌlɪb.əɹ.ti ˈsɑ.sɪd͡ʒ/ (General-American, cot-caught-merger)
• /ˌlɪb.əɹ.ti ˈsɔ.sɪd͡ʒ/ (General-American) without the cot–caught merger
• /ˌlɪb.əʳ.ʈiː ˈsɔ.sɪd͡ʒ/ (India, cot-caught-merger)
• /ˌlɪb.əɹ.ti ˈsɔ.sɪd͡ʒ/ (Scotland)
• /ˌlɪb.ə.tiː ˈsoː.sɪd͡ʒ/ (Australia)
• /ˌlɪb.ə.tiː ˈsɔː.sɪd͡ʒ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• lĭb′ər-tē sô′sĭj
• /ˌlɪb.əʳ.ʈiː ˈsɔː.sɪd͡ʒ/ (India) without the cot–caught merger
• /ˌləb.ə.tiː ˈsoː.səd͡ʒ/ (New-Zealand)
• /ˌlɪb.əɹ.ti ˈsɑ.sɪd͡ʒ/ (Canada, dialectal)
• /ˌlɪb.əɹ.ti ˈsɒ.sɪd͡ʒ/ (Canada)

Etymology

Coined during wartime because of antipathy toward the Germans and their language; see liberty cabbage.

Meanings

1. (US, historical) A frankfurter.
   • Nearby, a boy in a tweed reefer sold frankfurters (though they couldn’t, of course, be called that any longer). “Liberty sausages!” cried the boy from his cart. 2007 January 3, Michael Lowenthal, “Two”, in Charity Girl, 1. edition (fiction), Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2007, →ISBN, page 10, lines 11–13:

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