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M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition)
Haigele arsti, tervele vorsti.(idiomatic) ― A doctor for the sick, a sausage for the healthy.
1984, Eno Raud, Naksitrallid, volume 1 (children's), Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, →ISBN, page 84:
"Ainult kuskil poe juures peame hetkeks kinni ja ostame kassi jaoks natuke vorsti. Vorst kassile on tähtis toiduaine, / et näljast tal ei lõpeks teekond maine."
"We only stop for a moment at a shop somewhere and buy some sausage for the cat. Sausage is an important food for a cat, / so that hunger doesn't end its earthly course."
2012 January 17, Katrin Helend-Aaviku, “Haigele arsti, tervele vorsti”, in Nädaline, page 6:
Vorstil on ikka olnud eestlase jaoks tähtis koht. Ja mitte ainult toidulaual, kust ta võiks isegi natuke tagasi tõmbuda. Oma koht on tal aga ka eesti kirjanduses, kust lustakaid võrdlusi lugedes ei saagi lugejal isu täis. Näiteks nii Vilde kui ka Tammsaare on laisku inimesi kirjeldades kasutanud sõna vorst - "ta on laisk nagu vorst"[…]
Sausages have always had an important place for Estonians. And not only on the food table, from where it could even retreat a little. But it also has its place in Estonian literature, where the reader will never tire of reading funny comparisons. For example, both Vilde and Tammsaare have used the word sausage to describe lazy people - 'he's as lazy as a sausage'
Declension
Declension of vorst (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
“vorst”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
Jüri Viikberg (2016) “vorst”, in Alamsaksa laensõnad eesti keeles [Low German Loanwords in the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online dictionary)
Polański, Kazimierz (1994) “vorst”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), number 6 (un – źornü), Warszawa: Energeia, →ISBN, page 1038
Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “vorst”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 178