wiener breath
- noun
- /ˈwiːnər brɛθ/
- Informal
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- After enjoying a hot dog at the game, he was embarrassed by his wiener breath.
Examples
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No one wanted to sit next to him because his wiener breath lingered all afternoon.
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She always chews gum to cover up wiener breath after lunch.
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After eating two chili dogs, he apologized for his wiener breath.
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He had terrible wiener breath after the barbecue.
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Don't get too close; I have wiener breath!
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Everyone noticed her wiener breath after she finished the sausage sandwich.
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To avoid wiener breath, she always brings mints when she eats hot dogs.
Synonyms
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A strong unpleasant smell coming from the mouth
Breath that smells very bad like a fart
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'wiener' (a sausage) + 'breath' (air from the lungs) straightforwardly yields 'breath caused by eating wieners.' The 'X breath' pattern (e.g. garlic breath, onion breath) is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the meaning, though 'wiener' is colloquial.
Etymology
The phrase wiener breath comes from the image of someone who has just eaten a wiener, a hot dog, and now their breath smells strong and unpleasant. That's why it means 'bad breath' after eating hot dogs or similar sausages.