Frankfurt
Origin
From German Frankfurt. Compare frankfurter.
Full definition of frankfurt
Noun
frankfurt
(plural frankfurts)- (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, Volume 25, %22frankfurts%22+sauce+OR+sausage+OR+bread&dq=%22frankfurt%22|%22frankfurts%22+sauce+OR+sausage+OR+bread&hl=en&sa=X&ei=oKhVT5L9MoLimAWusMSBCg&redir_esc=y 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 , 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!!