Definitions

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  • noun Any of several mildy spiced sausages made with light-colored meat such as pork and veal.

Etymologies

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From German Weisswurst

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Examples

  • No true Bavarian would dream of indulging in the "weisswurst," a midmorning fresh, mild veal sausage, without salty pretzels and mustard.

    SFGate: Top News Stories food@sfchronicle.com (Karola Saekel 2010

  • One writer suggests over-complicating everything, and provides the following horrifying example of such a technique: "And he did then, with much gusto, verily grip his fingers around the weisswurst, a german sausage made from the meat of veal, otherwise known as baby cows or calves."

    Isabel Kaplan: One Novel, 30 Days Isabel Kaplan 2011

  • No self-respecting German would deny a beer request with your wurst at any hour (remember that in Bavaria you eat a second breakfast of weisswurst in the late morning and a nice brew is a necessary accompaniment).

    First Look: Hallo Berlin Express | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2008

  • No beer garden would be complete without sausages, and these don't disappoint: The weisswurst tastes of fresh herbs; the darker bauernwurst has a rich and smoky flavor.

    Biergarten Haus: The good and the bad 2010

  • Bratwurst and weisswurst sizzled smokily on grilles, providing a sensory counterpoint to the oom-pa-pa tunes.

    Gregory Daurer: Imagine a Great Beer City 2009

  • Then I drove to the nearby home of my Taos Toolbox student Oz Whiston, where she, her husband Jason, and her daughter Eloise provided an evening of pleasant company and a lovely dinner, sweet corn, new potatoes, and weisswurst.

    Memorial Day Walter Jon Williams 2008

  • Then I drove to the nearby home of my Taos Toolbox student Oz Whiston, where she, her husband Jason, and her daughter Eloise provided an evening of pleasant company and a lovely dinner, sweet corn, new potatoes, and weisswurst.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Walter Jon Williams 2008

  • My favorite one that I learned while studying over there included tarragon, S and P, tarragon vinegar, oil, sometimes a bit of chicken broth, minced onions, diced potatoes and sometimes little slices of weisswurst tossed in.

    Potato Salad 2007

  • In general, we preferred those with deeper char -- kielbasa, knackwurst, and weisswurst -- to those without.

    Lederhosen: 650 vetterillian stars 2006

  • In general, we preferred those with deeper char -- kielbasa, knackwurst, and weisswurst -- to those without.

    Augieland: 2006

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