frankfurt

See also: Frankfurt

English

Etymology

From German Frankfurt. Compare frankfurter.

Pronunciation

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Noun

frankfurt (plural frankfurts)

1. (US, Australia) A frankfurter; a hot dog sausage.
   • 1919, Michigan Office of Dairy and Food Commissioner, Annual report of the Dairy and Food Commissioner of the State of Michigan‎^[1], volume 25, page 81:

     Sample of frankfurts procured from Stanley Kwiatkowski, Grand Rapids, Mich. Contains excessive amount of cereal.

   • 1942, Robert Byron Hinman, Robert Bernard Harris, The Story of Meat, page 137:

     Frankfurts of the highest quality are prepared generally from a mixture of approximately half beef and half pork.

   • 2003 June 10, smithxpj, “Ham banned in Broadmeadows”, in aus.consumers‎^[2] (Usenet):

     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!!

Synonyms

• frank
• frankfurter

Derived terms

• cocktail frankfurt

See also

• sav
• savaloy

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [fɾəŋˈfurt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [fɾaŋˈfuɾt]

Noun

frankfurt m (plural frankfurts)

1. frankfurter, wiener

   Synonym: salsitxa de Frankfurt

2. hot dog

   Synonym: entrepà de salsitxa de Frankfurt

3. hot dog stand

Further reading

• “frankfurt” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.