liberty sausage

English

Coined during wartime because of antipathy toward the Germans and their language; see liberty cabbage.

enPR: lĭb′ər-tē sô′sĭj
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌlɪb.ə.tiː ˈsɔː.sɪd͡ʒ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): (without the cot–caught merger) /ˌlɪb.əɹ.ti ˈsɔ.sɪd͡ʒ/, (cot–caught merger) /ˌlɪb.əɹ.ti ˈsɑ.sɪd͡ʒ/
(Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌlɪb.əɹ.ti ˈsɒ.sɪd͡ʒ/, (dialectal) /ˌlɪb.əɹ.ti ˈsɑ.sɪd͡ʒ/
(General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌlɪb.ə.tiː ˈsoː.sɪd͡ʒ/
(New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌləb.ə.tiː ˈsoː.səd͡ʒ/
(Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˌlɪb.əɹ.ti ˈsɔ.sɪd͡ʒ/
(India) IPA^(key): (without the cot–caught merger) /ˌlɪb.əʳ.ʈiː ˈsɔː.sɪd͡ʒ/, (cot–caught merger) /ˌlɪb.əʳ.ʈiː ˈsɔ.sɪd͡ʒ/
Hyphenation: lib‧er‧ty sau‧sage

liberty sausage (plural liberty sausages)

(US, historical) A frankfurter.
- 2007 January 3, Michael Lowenthal, “Two”, in Charity Girl‎^[1], 1. edition (fiction), Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2007, →ISBN, page 10, lines 11–13:
  Nearby, a boy in a tweed reefer sold frankfurters (though they couldn’t, of course, be called that any longer). “Liberty sausages!” cried the boy from his cart.