![]() ![]() compound noun wiener dog: a dog of a very short-legged, long-bodied breed = dachshund, sausage dog one ridiculed as weak, socially inept, or unfashionable a fool. ![]() Also more fully wiener sausage, wienerwurst … Cf. A small, thin sausage similar to a frankfurter, traditionally made of pork and beef, and typically smoked. Noun wiener: North American 1 a frankfurter or similar sausage. 2 informal a penis. 3 informal, derogatory a weak, socially inept, or boringly studious person. ORIGIN early 20th century: abbreviation of German Wienerwurst‘Vienna sausage’. (#3) (b) Wiener art: Klimt’s Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907 See the section on Klimt and his art in my 3/23/16 posting “Klimt Eastwood”, featuring this celebrated Klimt portrait: Their official magazine was called Ver Sacrum ( Sacred Spring, in Latin), which published highly stylised and influential works of graphic art.įor modern Americans, Klimt is the face of the movement. Their most influential architectural work was the Secession Building designed by Joseph Maria Olbrich as a venue for expositions of the group. They resigned from the Association of Austrian Artists in protest against its support for more traditional artistic styles. ![]() The Vienna Secession … is an art movement, closely related to Art Nouveau, that was formed in 1897 by a group of Austrian painters, graphic artists, sculptors and architects, including Josef Hoffman, Koloman Moser, Otto Wagner and Gustav Klimt. Most notably, perhaps, through the Vienna Secession movement. The art of Wien, a city famous for its artists and its public art of many different sorts. Wiener Art Wiener Schnitzel - made from boneless cutlets of veal, tenderized and flattened by pounding, coated with breadcrumbs, and pan-fried (in lard or butter) - is an Austrian national dish, historically associated with Vienna variants of the dish made with pork, beef, or chicken are referred to in German as other kinds of Schnitzel or with the modifier Wiener Art and are often referred to in English as kinds of schnitzel ( chicken schnitzel, a staple of our Columbus OH household, typically served with egg noodles, parsley, and lemon slices) The frozen-food package in #1 is not an invention for the purposes of a joke, but the real thing. German Wiener Art ‘Viennese-style’ (a) leads to English Wiener art ‘Viennese art’ (b) and then to four AmE slang uses of wiener art: (c) ‘sausage / frankfurter art’ (d) ‘dachshund art’ (e) ‘penis art’ (f) ‘weenie art’. (#1) Hähnchenschnitten Wiener Art ‘Viennese-style chicken cutlets’ from the (German) Vossko company, the name of the product including the German phrase Wiener Art ‘Viennese-style’ - that is, prepared like Wiener Schnitzel / Wienerschnitzel) meanwhile, the English-language intro alludes to wiener art, in the sense ‘penis art’, referring to artworks in which penises are significant elements (or, in an hugely extended sense, to any artworks in which human penises are visible) - the label wiener art involving the (mildly racy) AmE sexual slang term wiener ‘penis’ Passed on by a friend on Facebook yesterday, this German grocery-store snapshot plus a joking double-entendre intro in English (together making what appears to be a a fast-spreading meme): (Phallic preoccupations abound in this posting, sometimes in street language - I mean, look at the title above - so some readers may want to skip over it) ![]()
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