David Weiner WEE-ner , creative and editorial director: My brother got married two weeks ago, and his now-wife is taking our last name. I imagine falling in love with a man named VaginaFace or something. But then the worst possible thing happened. We get it. But he spells his name wrong. Anthony Weiner, actually, he looks like he could be named Weiner. When you have a name like Wiener, you get used to people making jokes about your name.
It makes you much more relaxed about teasing and ribbing about things. Because, you get some of that. David Weiner WEE-ner , creative and editorial director: I think having the last name Weiner meant I had to be funnier than the next guy, had to make the joke first to deflect.
Scott Wiener WEE-ner , politician: In , I was in this highly competitive race, and I had these bright orange and midnight-blue windows signs and, of course, the biggest part was my last name. When kids are going on and on about their signs, that certainly has an effect on parents.
Photo of German war volunteer by Joe Robinson. Weiner dog race by Zach Taylor. Anthony Weiner photo by David Boyle. And Now It's Dead. All In The Family. The towns population is at 15,, making it the largest town of the region Rheiderland. Weiner is a smoked sausage or a slang term for penis. The common spelling is wiener. An example of a weiner is a hot dog. An example of a weiner is how a parent might refer to their toddler son's penis. Canada, US , Britain A frankfurter, a hot dog.
Canada, US , colloquial A penis. US , colloquial A person who is nervous or afraid to partake in certain activities. According to Nelly Weiss, Wein - style family names originated from signboards house sign, house shield in Jewish communities. Wein may also be related the German verb "weinen" to cry. The term was current at Yale in the fall of , when " dog wagons" sold hot dogs at the dorms. The name most likely began as a joke about the Germans' small, long, thin dogs. In fact, even Germans called the frankfurter a "little- dog " or "dachshund" sausage, thus linking the word " dog " to their popular concoction.
The traditional wiener is made with a small, thin hot dog made of beef, veal and pork, giving it a different taste from a traditional beef hot dog, served in a steamed bun, and topped with celery salt, yellow mustard, chopped onions, and a seasoned meat sauce the spices vary by vendor but always include celery salt.
Franks or made from one type of meat All Beef, chicken, turkey, etc. Wieners are made from more than one type of meat. Outsets and onsets! Your browser doesn't support HTML5 audio. What is the definition of wiener? Browse widower. Test your vocabulary with our fun image quizzes. Image credits. Word of the Day kind-hearted. About this. At the risk of wasting time on a thread that gets deleted for excessive use of foreign languages, German has a verb, "weinen," roughly equivalent to English "whine," so a "Weiner" nouns, proper or common, are all capitalized in German would be someone who whines.
Not a very complimentary family name to inherit, but there are Germans whose family names mean "cabbage" one became Chancellor of the Federal Republic and "belly. I don't offhand know how the Representative himself pronounces it, but many American mispronunciations have been adopted by the American holders.
For an example, one needs look no farther than the Speaker of the House of Representatives in which Mr. Weiner serves , whose name would never be pronounced BAY-ner in Germany; however, we have to accept that as the correct pronunciation of his name in the United States. Just to sum up. In the US, those sausages have three names: frankfurters or "franks" for short , hot dogs , and wieners pronounced "weeners".
They are interchangeable. As to the Congressman mentioned by Fabulist, whose indiscretions have recently propelled him into the headlines: His surname is Weiner, which according to German pronunciation would be pronounced "wyner"—but it is pronounced "weener", the same as the sausage. Proper names may be pronounced any way that those who have them choose to pronounce them; thus names ending in "-stein" are sometimes pronounced "-steen" and sometimes "-stine".
It is wise, if you are planning to meet such a person, to find out how that person chooses to pronounce the name. Last edited: Jun 15, Back in , I referred to the fact " weiner walks " or "wiener walks", since both spellings are used are popular in some quarters. I have just done a search on Google and found 24, entries for "weiner walk" alone, and they appear to relate to people walking their dogs, i. Many videos are available on You Tube if you have the time and the inclination.
Apparently, sausage dogs are indeed called "wieners" or "weiners" in North America - no doubt a reference to their shape. Both spellings are used. Pronunciation is English-sounding as opposed to German-style. The walks appear to be competitions where the proud owners parade their dogs and try to make them perform various tricks.
Such events seem to have started about 10 to 15 years ago. They seem to be very popular in Canada. Since there is not that much to do in Canada, I suppose we can all understand the need for such practices to liven up one's dreary weekend up there.
Southern AE greatly modified by a 1st-generation Scottish-American mother, and growing up abroad. In Germany many cities have distinctive kinds of sausage wurst , and it sometimes evolves that those cities lend their names to that particular kind of sausage.
Another sausage city is Braunschweig Brunswick , and their sausage is a form of what used to be called liverwurst in the U. In the U. Wieners, weenies-- in my opinion these terms are fading out of use, except in expressions like "don't be such a weenie. They are also called cocktail weenies. I forgot the most prevalent kind of city-named sausage-- the hamburger!
I've never known or heard of anyone named Wiener, though I'm sure you could find some if you looked hard enough. Weiner, on the other hand, is a fairly common German-Jewish name, and I've only ever heard it pronounced Wye-ner, not Wee-ner.
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