‖ blutwurst orig. U.S.
(ˈbluːtvʊrst)
[G.]
= blood-sausage.
| 1856 Spirit of Age (Sacramento, Calif.) 27 Mar. 3/1 ‘What is the German diet?’ ‘Sourkrout, pretzels, plutworst, and lager beer.’ 1911 Cosmopolitan Feb. 314/1 See that I have blutwurst, brattwurst, and mettwurst every day for breakfast. 1951 M. Lowry Let. Feb. (1967) 233 Or is perhaps Daseinsaussage his translation of my boudin—a sort of cousin to blutwurst? 1969 Coast to Coast 1967–8 189 She bought leber-wurst and long thin met-wursts and big hunks of blut-wurst speckled with rice, delicious when they were fried. |