corn dog
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1.8
- noun
- /kɔrn dɔg/
- US
:
perrito caliente empanado
- At the fair, I enjoyed a delicious corn dog dipped in mustard.
- eat corn dogs
- hot corn dog
- get a corn dog
I feel like the corn part of a corn dog is sweet already.
- I feel like the corn part of a corn dog is sweet already.
- It's a fair cinnamon roll corn dog, nothing like it.
- We had great food, Lots of corn dogs, cheese curds, mini Donuts, sweet Martha's cookies.
- We went to the other side of the booth, proceeded to buy said corn dog that was not made from him.
Examples
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Give me a bite of that corn dog.
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We are eating wieners and corn dogs today.
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We're going to get our corn dog on with the crew.
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It's time to finish those corn dogs.
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-Do you want me to get you a corn dog?
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Uh, anybody want a corn dog?
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Here is a delicious corn dog medley for you.
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We win this, and then we celebrate with Itaewon corn dogs!
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Our stomachs hurt from eating too many corn dogs and elephant ears and from drinking so much soda pop.
Fiction book (2001) -
Let's see, you guys got corn dogs, I'll have one of those, and an order of cheesy fries, and a diet soda.
Synonyms
252
1.0
A cooked sausage in a sliced bun, often with mustard or ketchup
184
1.0
A food made from ground meat and spices in a thin skin
19
1.0
A cooked sausage in a sliced bun often eaten as fast food
6
2.7
A sausage on a stick covered in cornmeal batter and deep fried
3
2.0
A smooth, smoky sausage of pork or beef often served in a bread roll
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward noun compound where 'corn' modifies 'dog' to signal a dog (hot dog sausage) associated with corn — i.e., a sausage prepared with cornmeal. A B1 learner who knows 'corn' and 'dog' can readily infer a corn-coated or corn-based hot dog; the naming follows common, compositional food-compound patterns across languages.
Etymology
The name corn dog comes from a simple picture: a dog, meaning 'hot dog' sausage, on a stick dipped in a thick corn batter and fried. Because the sausage is covered in cornmeal, the name came to mean this fried snack sold at fairs.