as in sausage
a rod-shaped portion of seasoned ground meat in a casing
spicy wurst mixed with chopped potatoes is delicious
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Recent Examples of wurst
Enjoy specialty wine pairings with treats like chocolates and wursts.
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Roger Sands, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
So, light the flares, pocket those tennis balls, get your wurst cooking and… Auf gehts!
—Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 20 Aug. 2024
Among the wurst: In 2003, then-Pittsburgh Pirates first baseman Randall Simon whacked the Italian Sausage with a bat, causing the Hot Dog to tumble as well.
—Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2024
The German people have been advised by a joy sucking group of foodstuff busybodies to reduce their sausage consumption to a single wurst.
—David Harsanyi, National Review, 8 June 2023
Cullman has the best of the wurst.
—al, 2 Oct. 2022
The beer hall, 1009 N. King Drive, will give away one wurst to a person from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., or while supplies last.
—Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2022
Roger Sands, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
So, light the flares, pocket those tennis balls, get your wurst cooking and… Auf gehts!
—Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 20 Aug. 2024
Among the wurst: In 2003, then-Pittsburgh Pirates first baseman Randall Simon whacked the Italian Sausage with a bat, causing the Hot Dog to tumble as well.
—Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2024
The German people have been advised by a joy sucking group of foodstuff busybodies to reduce their sausage consumption to a single wurst.
—David Harsanyi, National Review, 8 June 2023
Cullman has the best of the wurst.
—al, 2 Oct. 2022
The beer hall, 1009 N. King Drive, will give away one wurst to a person from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., or while supplies last.
—Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wurst
sausage
Noun
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July 4th was ultimately a sausage split screen: Chicagoan Patrick Bertoletti put away 58 hot dogs in 10 minutes to win his first Nathan's contest, while Chestnut downed 57 hot dogs in half the time — beating a team of four soldiers, who collectively consumed 49.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
17 June 2025
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Expect hearty breakfast entrees, like homemade biscuits and sausage gravy or pancakes, or come for lunch or dinner and order the hushpuppies and crab cakes.—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
16 June 2025
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“Wurst.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wurst. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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