frankfurt
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See also: Frankfurt
English
Etymology
From German Frankfurt. Compare frankfurter.
Pronunciation
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Noun
frankfurt (plural frankfurts)
- (US, Australia) A frankfurter; a hot dog sausage.
- 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 (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!!
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Catalan
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Etymology
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Noun
frankfurt m (plural frankfurts)
- frankfurter, wiener
- Synonym: salsitxa de Frankfurt
- hot dog
- Synonym: entrepà de salsitxa de Frankfurt
- hot dog stand
Further reading
- “frankfurt” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “frankfurt”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024