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Synonyms for frankfurter

Grammar : Noun
Spell : frangk-fer-ter
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfræŋk fər tər

Définition of frankfurter

Origin :
  • "hot dog," 1894, American English, from German Frankfurter "of Frankfurt," because a smoked-beef-and-pork sausage somewhat like a U.S. hot dog was originally made in Germany, where it was associated with the city of Frankfurt am Main (literally "ford of the Franks on the River Main"). Attested from 1877 as Frankfort sausage.
  • noun cylindrical meat sausage
Example sentences :
  • Maybe a person might get to be a millionaire just starting with a frankfurter, you never can tell.
  • Extract from : « Pee-wee Harris » by Percy Keese Fitzhugh
  • "I wish I could draw," mused Patricia, absently sugaring her Frankfurter.
  • Extract from : « Miss Pat at School » by Pemberton Ginther
  • Laloo forked a frankfurter, selected a roll and looked expectantly at Stover.
  • Extract from : « The Varmint » by Owen Johnson
  • We agreed that the work was to be done by Frankfurter artists and printed there.
  • Extract from : « The Invention of Lithography » by Alois Senefelder
  • Ill deliver it, Pee-wee shouted; I want to get a frankfurter, anyway.
  • Extract from : « Roy Blakeley's Motor Caravan » by Percy Keese Fitzhugh
  • Then Fritz passed in a frankfurter about the size of a policeman's night stick.
  • Extract from : « Mortmain » by Arthur Cheny Train
  • "Everything is going right for us," says the Frankfurter Zeitung.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, March 14, 1917 » by Various
  • Another typical German lie is published by the Frankfurter Zeitung.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 148, January 13th 1915 » by Various
  • This is the old Frankfurter Faustbuch, of which only one perfect specimen is now known to exist.
  • Extract from : « The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' » by H. B. Cotterill
  • I once perceived Dominick, in the height of the balloon season, with a frankfurter balloon, a shape then new.
  • Extract from : « Life's Minor Collisions » by Frances Warner

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