Vienna sausage
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- noun
- /ˈviːənə ˈsɔːsɪdʒ/
:
salchicha vienesa
- For lunch, I opened a can of Vienna sausage and made a quick sandwich.
- can of Vienna sausage
- little Vienna sausage
Examples
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I had set out some Vienna sausages in a plastic saucer, and beside it a red plastic mixing bowl full of water—both where I knew he'd find them.
Fiction book (2001) -
Do you like Vienna sausages?
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When I was a kid 'mumble-mumble' years ago, I loved my Vienna sausages!
Blog text (22) -
Prices for imported goods, from Vienna sausages to sweatpants, are high.
Academic text (1994) -
Maybe he'd stashed a sack holding a sandwich or a can of Vienna sausage among the pines.
Fiction book (1998) -
The woman behind her kept putting groceries on the belt: white bread, frozen dinner rolls, a slew of Vienna sausages, potted meat.
Fiction book (1999) -
My favorite snack is a plate of crackers topped with Vienna sausage slices.
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Every picnic we had always included a jar of Vienna sausage as part of the spread.
Synonyms
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1.0
A food made from ground meat and spices in a thin skin
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1.8
A small cooked sausage often served in a bread roll like a hot dog
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3.2
A smooth sausage usually made from beef or pork and eaten in a roll
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2.0
A smooth, smoky sausage of pork or beef often served in a bread roll
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5.1
A German sausage made from pork, beef or veal and spices
A thin smoked sausage made from beef or pork often served in a bun
How Processed
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase simply names a type of sausage associated with Vienna (city) and thus its core meaning — a kind of sausage — is directly derivable from the constituents 'Vienna' and 'sausage'. While finer cultural details (e.g. that it is short, slender, often canned) are not predictable, a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it denotes a sausage variety or style linked to Vienna.
Etymology
Vienna sausage comes from the city of Vienna, where cooks made thin sausages called 'Wiener'. When these small, cooked sausages began to be sold in cans, English speakers called the canned food Vienna sausage, so today the phrase means a short, ready-to-eat sausage sold in jars or cans.