hot dog
English

Alternative forms
Etymology
From hot + dogCategory:English compound terms#HOTDOG, in reference to the supposed source of the meat, both in the senses of the food item (noun senses 1 and 2) and of a show-off (noun sense 3). First attested in 1884 in the Evansville (Indiana) Daily Courier.[1]
Pronunciation
- (noun and verb):
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɒt.dɒɡ/Category:English 2-syllable words#HOTDOGCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#HOTDOG
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhɑt.dɔɡ/, /-dɑɡ/Category:English 2-syllable words#HOTDOGCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#HOTDOG
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈhɑt.dɑɡ/Category:English 2-syllable words#HOTDOGCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#HOTDOG
- (Boston, New England) IPA(key): /ˈhʌt.dɒɡ/, [ˈhʌʔ.dɒːɡ]Category:English 2-syllable words#HOTDOGCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#HOTDOG
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#HOTDOGAudio (General American): (file)
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#HOTDOGAudio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒtdɒɡCategory:Rhymes:English/ɒtdɒɡ#HOTDOGCategory:Rhymes:English/ɒtdɒɡ/2 syllables#HOTDOG
- (interjection):
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌhɒtˈdɒɡ/Category:English 2-syllable words#HOTDOGCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#HOTDOG
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌhɑtˈdɔɡ/, /-ˈdɑɡ/Category:English 2-syllable words#HOTDOGCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#HOTDOG
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ˌhɑtˈdɑɡ/Category:English 2-syllable words#HOTDOGCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#HOTDOG
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#HOTDOGAudio (General American): (file)
Noun
hot dog (plural hot dogs)Category:English lemmas#HOTDOGCategory:English nouns#HOTDOGCategory:English countable nouns#HOTDOGCategory:English multiword terms#HOTDOGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#HOTDOGCategory:Pages with entries#HOT%20DOGCategory:Pages with 7 entries#HOT%20DOG
- A sausage, typically a frankfurter.
- Synonyms: frankfurter, frank, frankfurt; wiener, weenie (informal); glizzy (US slang), tube steak (slang), pimp steak (rare slang), red hot (US dialectal)
- Hyponyms: ballpark frank, veggie dog (sometimes)
- Coordinate terms: veggie dog, not dog; hamburger
- Don't forget to buy some hot dogs to grill and some buns to put them on.Category:English terms with usage examples#HOTDOG
- Hot dogs and beans are a traditional favorite.Category:English terms with usage examples#HOTDOG
- A food item (dish) consisting of a frankfurter or wiener and (usually) a hot dog bun, with toppings such as ketchup, mustard, relish, sauerkraut, onions, cheese, etc.
- Synonyms: frankfurter, frank, frankfurt; wiener, weenie (informal); glizzy (US slang), tube steak (slang), pimp steak (rare slang), red hot (US dialectal)
- Hyponyms: ballpark frank, cheese coney, Coney Island, cheese dog, Chicago-style hot dog, Chicago dog, chili dog, corndog, dagwood dog, footlong, junkyard dog, pig in a blanket, steamie
- Coordinate terms: veggie dog (sometimes hyponymous), not dog; sandwich (sometimes hypernymous); hamburger
- He ordered a hot dog with everything on it.Category:English terms with usage examples#HOTDOG
- A show-off or daredevil, especially in such sports as surfing, skateboarding, or skiing.
- (New ZealandCategory:New Zealand English#HOTDOG) A battered, deep-fried sausage or saveloy on a stick; a corn dog.
- (USCategory:American English#HOTDOG, educationCategory:en:Education#HOTDOG, informalCategory:English informal terms#HOTDOG) Describing the shape of a rectangular piece of paper folded in half so that it forms a long rectangle.
- Coordinate term: hamburger
- (slangCategory:English slang#HOTDOG, vulgarCategory:English vulgarities#HOTDOG) The penis.
- Synonyms: wiener; see also Thesaurus:penis
- 1994, Sexual Harassment in Education, page 26:
- primarily verbal teasing from both male and female students, ranging from statements that the student had a "hot dog in her pants" and that she had "sex with hot dogs." to graffiti that "Jane is a hot dog bitch."Category:English terms with quotations#HOTDOG
- 1995, The Guide to American Law Supplement, page 347:
- It started in the fall of 1990, early in seventh grade, when two boys told her, "I hear you have a hot dog in your pants."Category:English terms with quotations#HOTDOG
girls were now making hot dog remarks. the counselor maintained—incorrectly—that he was powerless to stop it
- 1996, Richard Sandomir, Life for Real Dummies: A Reference for the Totally Clueless, page 5:
- How 'bout I put my hot dog in your bun?Category:English terms with quotations#HOTDOG
- 1999, Louis I. Gerdes, Sexual Harassment, page 118:
- In the fall of 1990, when she was in the seventh grade, classmates spread the word that Doe had a hot dog in her pants.Category:English terms with quotations#HOTDOG
- 2012, Elias Sassoon, Hashish Dreaming:
- But what it is basically the in and the out, the hot dog splicing through the doughnut.Category:English terms with quotations#HOTDOG
- 2019 Hot Blood, Hot Thoughts, Hot Deeds, Empire season 5 episode 13
- I'm just saying, you being a mama, it's time to clear the cobwebs. You know what I'm saying? Put a banana in the monkey. You know, hot dog in your bun.
- (slangCategory:English slang#HOTDOG, vulgarCategory:English vulgarities#HOTDOG) A sexually suggestive physical gesture involving movement of the hips.
- 2006, Kyra D. Gaunt, The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-dutch to Hip-hop, page 98:
- This gyrated gesture (“hot dog”) appears to suggest the movements of sexual intercourse to an onlooker, but for girls it's merely play. The movement is also, however, a way of learning to move one's hips in a way that will become useful, on and off the dance floor, in their embodied relations with others.Category:English terms with quotations#HOTDOG
Derived terms
Translations
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See also
Verb
hot dog (third-person singular simple present hot dogs, present participle hot dogging, simple past and past participle hot dogged)Category:English lemmas#HOTDOGCategory:English verbs#HOTDOGCategory:English multiword terms#HOTDOGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#HOTDOGCategory:Pages with entries#HOT%20DOGCategory:Pages with 7 entries#HOT%20DOG
- (slangCategory:English slang#HOTDOG, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#HOTDOG) To perform a dangerous or difficult act or stunt as a display of skill or daring, especially in surfing and other sports.
- Hypernym: show off
Derived terms
Translations
Interjection
hot dogCategory:English lemmas#HOTDOGCategory:English interjections#HOTDOGCategory:English multiword terms#HOTDOGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#HOTDOGCategory:Pages with entries#HOT%20DOGCategory:Pages with 7 entries#HOT%20DOG
- An expression of delight or enthusiasm.
- 1954, Oren Arnold, The Golden Chair, Elsevier, page 249:
- He patted his lap for her to sit on. Hot dog, I said to myself; settin' on his lap!Category:English terms with quotations#HOTDOG
- 2006, Robert B. Parker, Hundred-Dollar Baby, Putnam, →ISBN, page 140:
- "Anybody with an alibi they can tell me?" I said. No one said anything "Hot dog!" I said.Category:English terms with quotations#HOTDOG
- An expression of disappointment.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)Category:Requests for example sentences in English#HOTDOG
References
- ↑ Gerald Leonard Cohen, Barry A. Popik, and David Shulman, Origin of the Term "Hot Dog" (2004), private printing
Finnish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from EnglishCategory:Finnish terms borrowed from English#HOT%20DOGCategory:Finnish unadapted borrowings from English#HOT%20DOGCategory:Finnish terms derived from English#HOT%20DOG hot dog.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhotdoɡ/, [ˈho̞t̪do̞ɡ]Category:Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation#HOT%20DOG
Noun
hot dogCategory:Finnish lemmas#HOT%20DOGCategory:Finnish nouns#HOT%20DOGCategory:Finnish multiword terms#HOT%20DOGCategory:Finnish entries with incorrect language header#HOT%20DOGCategory:Pages with entries#HOT%20DOGCategory:Pages with 7 entries#HOT%20DOG
- hot dog (frankfurter in a bun)
- Synonym: nakkisämpylä
Declension
| Inflection of hot dog (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | hot dog | hot dogit | |
| genitive | hot dogin | hot dogien | |
| partitive | hot dogia | hot dogeja | |
| illative | hot dogiin | hot dogeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | hot dog | hot dogit | |
| accusative | nom. | hot dog | hot dogit |
| gen. | hot dogin | ||
| genitive | hot dogin | hot dogien | |
| partitive | hot dogia | hot dogeja | |
| inessive | hot dogissa | hot dogeissa | |
| elative | hot dogista | hot dogeista | |
| illative | hot dogiin | hot dogeihin | |
| adessive | hot dogilla | hot dogeilla | |
| ablative | hot dogilta | hot dogeilta | |
| allative | hot dogille | hot dogeille | |
| essive | hot dogina | hot dogeina | |
| translative | hot dogiksi | hot dogeiksi | |
| abessive | hot dogitta | hot dogeitta | |
| instructive | — | hot dogein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from EnglishCategory:Italian terms borrowed from English#HOT%20DOGCategory:Italian unadapted borrowings from English#HOT%20DOGCategory:Italian terms derived from English#HOT%20DOG hot dog.
Pronunciation
Noun
hot dog m (invariable)Category:Italian lemmas#HOT%20DOGCategory:Italian nouns#HOT%20DOGCategory:Italian countable nouns#HOT%20DOGCategory:Italian indeclinable nouns#HOT%20DOGCategory:Italian multiword terms#HOT%20DOGCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#HOT%20DOGCategory:Italian masculine nouns#HOT%20DOGCategory:Pages with entries#HOT%20DOGCategory:Pages with 7 entries#HOT%20DOG
Synonyms
Polish

Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from American EnglishCategory:Polish terms borrowed from American English#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish unadapted borrowings from American English#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish terms derived from American English#HOT%20DOG hot dog.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈxɔd.dɔk/Category:Polish 2-syllable words#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish terms with IPA pronunciation#HOT%20DOG
Category:Polish terms with audio pronunciation#HOT%20DOGAudio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɔddɔkCategory:Rhymes:Polish/ɔddɔk#HOT%20DOGCategory:Rhymes:Polish/ɔddɔk/2 syllables#HOT%20DOG
- Syllabification: [please specify syllabification manually]Category:Polish entries with Template:pl-pr without syllabification
Noun
hot dog m animalCategory:Polish lemmas#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish nouns#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish multiword terms#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish entries with incorrect language header#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish masculine nouns#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish animal nouns#HOT%20DOGCategory:Pages with entries#HOT%20DOGCategory:Pages with 7 entries#HOT%20DOG
- hot dog (food item consisting of a frankfurter or wiener, typically served on a hot dog bun, with toppings such as ketchup, mustard, relish, sauerkraut, onions, cheese, etc.)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | hot dogCategory:Polish links with redundant wikilinks#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish links with redundant alt parameters#HOT%20DOG | hot dogiCategory:Polish links with redundant wikilinks#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish links with redundant alt parameters#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish links with manual fragments#HOT%20DOG |
| genitive | hot dogaCategory:Polish links with redundant wikilinks#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish links with redundant alt parameters#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish links with manual fragments#HOT%20DOG | hot dogówCategory:Polish links with redundant wikilinks#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish links with redundant alt parameters#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish links with manual fragments#HOT%20DOG |
| dative | hot dogowiCategory:Polish links with redundant wikilinks#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish links with redundant alt parameters#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish links with manual fragments#HOT%20DOG | hot dogomCategory:Polish links with redundant wikilinks#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish links with redundant alt parameters#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish links with manual fragments#HOT%20DOG |
| accusative | hot dogaCategory:Polish links with redundant wikilinks#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish links with redundant alt parameters#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish links with manual fragments#HOT%20DOG | hot dogiCategory:Polish links with redundant wikilinks#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish links with redundant alt parameters#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish links with manual fragments#HOT%20DOG |
| instrumental | hot dogiemCategory:Polish links with redundant wikilinks#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish links with redundant alt parameters#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish links with manual fragments#HOT%20DOG | hot dogamiCategory:Polish links with redundant wikilinks#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish links with redundant alt parameters#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish links with manual fragments#HOT%20DOG |
| locative | hot doguCategory:Polish links with redundant wikilinks#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish links with redundant alt parameters#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish links with manual fragments#HOT%20DOG | hot dogachCategory:Polish links with redundant wikilinks#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish links with redundant alt parameters#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish links with manual fragments#HOT%20DOG |
| vocative | hot doguCategory:Polish links with redundant wikilinks#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish links with redundant alt parameters#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish links with manual fragments#HOT%20DOG | hot dogiCategory:Polish links with redundant wikilinks#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish links with redundant alt parameters#HOT%20DOGCategory:Polish links with manual fragments#HOT%20DOG |
Further reading
- “hot dog”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- “hot dog”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN (in Polish)
- hot dog in PWN's encyclopedia
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from EnglishCategory:Portuguese terms borrowed from English#HOT%20DOGCategory:Portuguese unadapted borrowings from English#HOT%20DOGCategory:Portuguese terms derived from English#HOT%20DOG hot dog.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌʁɔ.t͡ʃiˈdɔ.ɡi/ [ˌhɔ.t͡ʃiˈdɔ.ɡi]Category:Portuguese 4-syllable words#HOT%20DOGCategory:Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation#HOT%20DOG
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˌʁɔ.t͡ʃiˈdɔ.ɡi/ [ˌχɔ.t͡ʃiˈdɔ.ɡi]Category:Portuguese 4-syllable words#HOT%20DOGCategory:Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation#HOT%20DOG
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌʁɔ.t͡ʃiˈdɔ.ɡe/ [ˌhɔ.t͡ʃiˈdɔ.ɡe]Category:Portuguese 4-syllable words#HOT%20DOGCategory:Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation#HOT%20DOG
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈɔ.tɨ ˈdɔ.ɡɨ/ [ˈɔ.tɨ ˈðɔ.ɣɨ]Category:Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation#HOT%20DOG
Noun
hot dog m (plural hot dogs)Category:Portuguese lemmas#HOT%20DOGCategory:Portuguese nouns#HOT%20DOGCategory:Portuguese countable nouns#HOT%20DOGCategory:Portuguese multiword terms#HOT%20DOGCategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#HOT%20DOGCategory:Portuguese masculine nouns#HOT%20DOGCategory:Pages with entries#HOT%20DOGCategory:Pages with 7 entries#HOT%20DOG
- (BrazilCategory:Brazilian Portuguese#HOT%20DOG) hot dog (frankfurter in a bun)
- Synonym: cachorro-quente
Derived terms
Further reading
- “hot dog”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from EnglishCategory:Romanian terms borrowed from English#HOT%20DOGCategory:Romanian unadapted borrowings from English#HOT%20DOGCategory:Romanian terms derived from English#HOT%20DOG hot dog.
Noun
hot dog m (plural hot dogi)Category:Romanian lemmas#HOT%20DOGCategory:Romanian nouns#HOT%20DOGCategory:Romanian nouns with red links in their headword lines#HOT%20DOGCategory:Romanian countable nouns#HOT%20DOGCategory:Romanian multiword terms#HOT%20DOGCategory:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#HOT%20DOGCategory:Romanian masculine nouns#HOT%20DOGCategory:Pages with entries#HOT%20DOGCategory:Pages with 7 entries#HOT%20DOG
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from EnglishCategory:Spanish terms borrowed from English#HOT%20DOGCategory:Spanish terms derived from English#HOT%20DOG hot dog.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌxod ˈdoɡ/ [ˌxoð̞ ˈð̞oɣ̞]Category:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#HOT%20DOG
Noun
hot dog m (plural hot dogs or hot dog)Category:Spanish lemmas#HOT%20DOGCategory:Spanish nouns#HOT%20DOGCategory:Spanish countable nouns#HOT%20DOGCategory:Spanish nouns with multiple plurals#HOT%20DOGCategory:Spanish multiword terms#HOT%20DOGCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#HOT%20DOGCategory:Spanish masculine nouns#HOT%20DOGCategory:Pages with entries#HOT%20DOGCategory:Pages with 7 entries#HOT%20DOG
- (MexicoCategory:Mexican Spanish#HOT%20DOG, PeruCategory:Peruvian Spanish#HOT%20DOG, Puerto RicoCategory:Puerto Rican Spanish#HOT%20DOG) hot dog (the complete snack, never just the sausage)
- Synonyms: (Guatemala and other parts of Central America) chévere, (Spain) perrito caliente, (Costa Rica) perro caliente
