bockwurst

noun

bock·​wurst

plural -s

: a seasoned sausage made chiefly of veal

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from German, from Bock "bock beer" + Wurst "sausage"; from the traditional consumption of the sausage with bock beer around the time of the Feast of Corpus Christi

First Known Use

1885, in the meaning defined above

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