hot dog

See also: hotdog, Hotdog, hot-dog, and Hot Dog

English

A hot dog on a bun, with ketchup.

Alternative forms

• hotdog, hot-dog

Etymology

1894 (US college slang) from hot +‎ dog (in reference to supposed source of the meat), both the sense of frankfurter in a roll, and of show-off.

Pronunciation

• (noun and verb):
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒt.dɒɡ/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑt.dɔɡ/, /ˈhɑt.dɑɡ/
  • (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑt.dɑɡ/
  • (Boston, New England) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌt.dɒɡ/, [ˈhʌʔ.dɒːɡ]

  • Audio (General Australian):

    (file)

• (interjection):
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌhɒtˈdɒɡ/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /ˌhɑtˈdɔɡ/, /ˌhɑtˈdɑɡ/
  • (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌhɑtˈdɑɡ/

Noun

hot dog (plural hot dogs)

2. A frankfurter sausage.

   Synonyms: frankfurter, frank, frankfurt; wiener, weeny (informal); glizzy (US slang), tube steak (slang), pimp steak (rare slang), red hot (US dialectal)

   Hyponym: ballpark frank

   Coordinate terms: veggie dog (sometimes hyponymous), not dog; hamburger

   Don't forget to buy some hot dogs to grill and some buns to put them on.

   Hot dogs and beans are a traditional favorite.

4. 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, weeny (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.

5. A show-off or daredevil, especially in such sports as surfing, skateboarding, or skiing.
6. (New Zealand) A battered, deep-fried sausage or saveloy on a stick; a corn dog.
7. (slang) The penis.

   Synonyms: wiener; see also Thesaurus:penis

   • 1994, Sexual Harassment in Education‎^[1], 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."

   • 1995, The Guide to American Law Supplement‎^[2], 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."
     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^[3], page 5:

     How 'bout I put my hot dog in your bun?

   • 1999, Louis I. Gerdes, Sexual Harassment‎^[4], 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.

   • 2012, Elias Sassoon, Hashish Dreaming‎^[5]:

     But what it is basically the in and the out, the hot dog splicing through the doughnut.

   • 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.

8. A sexually suggestive physical gesture involving hip movement.
   • 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.

9. (US, education, informal) Describing the shape of a rectangular piece of paper folded in half so that it forms a long rectangle.

   Coordinate term: hamburger

Derived terms

• American hot dog
• carrot dog
• cheese dog
• Chicago dog
• Chicago-style hot dog
• chili dog
• chocolate hot dog
• Coney Island hot dog
• corndog
• dagwood dog
• hot dog bun
• hot-doggy
• junkyard dog
• like throwing a hot dog down a hallway
• not dog
• veggie dog

 

Translations

frankfurter in a bun

• Albanian: salsiçe (sq) f
• American Sign Language: 1@NearPalm-C@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp Contact
• Arabic: هُوت دُوج m (hot dog)

  Hijazi Arabic: هوت دوق m (hōt dōg, hut dug)

• Belarusian: хот-до́г m (xot-dóh)
• Bulgarian: хот-до́г m (hot-dóg), хот до́г m (hot dóg)
• Catalan: entrepà de frankfurt
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 熱狗／热狗 (jit⁶ gau²)

  Mandarin: 熱狗／热狗 (zh) (règǒu)

• Danish: hotdog (da), varm hund c, pølse med brød c
• Dzongkha: ཧོཊ་ཌོག (hoṭ ḍog)
• Esperanto: kolbasobulko (eo), hotdogo
• Estonian: hot dog (et)
• Finnish: nakkisämpylä (fi), hodari (fi), hot dog (fi)
• French: hot-dog (fr) m, (Quebec, Louisiana, Missouri, New England) chien chaud m, (Quebec, informal) roteux (fr) m
• Georgian: ჰოთ-დოგი (hot-dogi), ჰოთდოგი (hotdogi)
• German: (German style) Bratwurst im Brötchen n; (American style) Hotdog (de) m or n, Hot Dog (de) m or n
• Greek: χοτ ντογκ (el) n (chot ntogk)
• Hebrew: נקניקייה (he) f (naknikiyá)
• Hindi: होट डोग (hoṭ ḍog), हॉट-डॉग (hŏṭ-ḍŏg)
• Hungarian: hotdog (hu)
• Icelandic: pylsa (is)
• Italian: hot dog (it) m, cane caldo m (rare), cagnolino caldo m (rare)
• Japanese: ホットドッグ (ja) (hottodoggu), ホットドック (hottodokku)
• Kazakh: хот-дог (xot-dog)
• Korean: 핫도그 (ko) (hatdogeu)
• Kyrgyz: хот-дог (hot-dog)
• Macedonian: хот-дог m (hot-dog)
• Malay: hot dog
• Marathi: हॉट डॉग (hŏṭ ḍŏg)
• Navajo: achʼííʼ yázhí sidohí, atsįʼ níyizí, achʼííʼ yázhí
• Norman: caûd tchian m
• Norwegian: pølse (no) f, pølse i brød f
• Persian: هات داگ (hât dâg), هات‌داگ (hât-dâg)
• Polish: hot dog (pl) m
• Portuguese: cachorro-quente (pt) m, hot dog (pt) m, cachorro (pt) m
• Romanian: hotdog m, hot dog (ro) m
• Russian: хот-до́г (ru) m (xot-dóg)
• Spanish: (Spain) perrito caliente (es), (Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, Venezuela) perro caliente (es) m, (Chile) italiano (es) m, (Chile) completo (es) m, (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay) pancho (es) m, (Guatemala, colloquial) chévere (es) m, ^{(please verify)} jocho (es) m (Mexico, colloquial), (Guatemala, colloquial) shuco (es) m
• Swedish: korv med bröd c, varmkorv (sv) c
• Tagalog: hatdog
• Thai: ฮอตดอก (hɔ́t-dɔ̀ɔk)
• Turkish: sosisli sandviç (tr)
• Ukrainian: хот-до́г m (xot-dóh)
• Uzbek: hot-dog
• Vietnamese: bánh mì kẹp xúc xích
• Welsh: ci poeth (cy) m or f
• Yiddish: וווּרשטל n (vurshtl)

sausage

• Armenian: նրբերշիկ (hy) (nrberšik)
• Bulgarian: кренвирш m (krenvirš)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 熱狗腸／热狗肠 (jit⁶ gau² coeng^4-2)

  Mandarin: 熱狗腸／热狗肠 (règǒucháng)

• Danish: pølse (da) c
• Esperanto: frankfurto
• Finnish: nakki (fi)
• Hungarian: virsli (hu)
• Italian: salsiccia (it) f, würstel (it) m
• Japanese: ソーセージ (ja) (sōsēji), フランクフルト (furankufuruto)
• Macedonian: виршла f (viršla)
• Navajo: achʼííʼ yázhí sidohí, atsįʼ níyizí
• Portuguese: salsicha (pt) f
• Russian: соси́ска (ru) f (sosíska)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вѝршла f, хрѐно̄вка f

  Roman: vìršla (sh) f, hrènōvka (sh) f

• Spanish: salchicha (es) f, vienesa (es) f
• Swedish: varmkorv (sv) c, grillkorv (sv) c, korv (sv) c

show-off or daredevil

• Finnish: huimapää
• Spanish: temerario (es) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} hotdog (sh) m
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} dogo (es) m (Northwestern Mexico), ^{(please verify)} frankfurter m (Uruguay), ^{(please verify)} hot dog m (Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico standard usage, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico), ^{(please verify)} pan (es) m (Guatemala, colloquial), perrito (es) m

See also

• sav
• saveloy

Verb

hot dog (third-person singular simple present hot dogs, present participle hot dogging, simple past and past participle hot dogged)

1. (intransitive, slang) 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

• hotdogger

Translations

to perform a dangerous act as display — see show off

Interjection

hot dog

1. 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!

   • 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.

2. An expression of disappointment.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hot dog.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhotdoɡ/, [ˈho̞t̪do̞ɡ]

Noun

hot dog

1. 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.

Possessive forms of hot dog (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative hot dogini hot dogini accusative nom. hot dogini hot dogini gen. hot dogini genitive hot dogini hot dogieni partitive hot dogiani hot dogejani inessive hot dogissani hot dogeissani elative hot dogistani hot dogeistani illative hot dogiini hot dogeihini adessive hot dogillani hot dogeillani ablative hot dogiltani hot dogeiltani allative hot dogilleni hot dogeilleni essive hot doginani hot dogeinani translative hot dogikseni hot dogeikseni abessive hot dogittani hot dogeittani instructive — — comitative — hot dogeineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative hot dogisi hot dogisi accusative nom. hot dogisi hot dogisi gen. hot dogisi genitive hot dogisi hot dogiesi partitive hot dogiasi hot dogejasi inessive hot dogissasi hot dogeissasi elative hot dogistasi hot dogeistasi illative hot dogiisi hot dogeihisi adessive hot dogillasi hot dogeillasi ablative hot dogiltasi hot dogeiltasi allative hot dogillesi hot dogeillesi essive hot doginasi hot dogeinasi translative hot dogiksesi hot dogeiksesi abessive hot dogittasi hot dogeittasi instructive — — comitative — hot dogeinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative hot dogimme hot dogimme accusative nom. hot dogimme hot dogimme gen. hot dogimme genitive hot dogimme hot dogiemme partitive hot dogiamme hot dogejamme inessive hot dogissamme hot dogeissamme elative hot dogistamme hot dogeistamme illative hot dogiimme hot dogeihimme adessive hot dogillamme hot dogeillamme ablative hot dogiltamme hot dogeiltamme allative hot dogillemme hot dogeillemme essive hot doginamme hot dogeinamme translative hot dogiksemme hot dogeiksemme abessive hot dogittamme hot dogeittamme instructive — — comitative — hot dogeinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative hot doginne hot doginne accusative nom. hot doginne hot doginne gen. hot doginne genitive hot doginne hot dogienne partitive hot dogianne hot dogejanne inessive hot dogissanne hot dogeissanne elative hot dogistanne hot dogeistanne illative hot dogiinne hot dogeihinne adessive hot dogillanne hot dogeillanne ablative hot dogiltanne hot dogeiltanne allative hot dogillenne hot dogeillenne essive hot doginanne hot dogeinanne translative hot dogiksenne hot dogeiksenne abessive hot dogittanne hot dogeittanne instructive — — comitative — hot dogeinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative hot doginsa hot doginsa accusative nom. hot doginsa hot doginsa gen. hot doginsa genitive hot doginsa hot dogiensa partitive hot dogiaan hot dogiansa hot dogejaan hot dogejansa inessive hot dogissaan hot dogissansa hot dogeissaan hot dogeissansa elative hot dogistaan hot dogistansa hot dogeistaan hot dogeistansa illative hot dogiinsa hot dogeihinsa adessive hot dogillaan hot dogillansa hot dogeillaan hot dogeillansa ablative hot dogiltaan hot dogiltansa hot dogeiltaan hot dogeiltansa allative hot dogilleen hot dogillensa hot dogeilleen hot dogeillensa essive hot doginaan hot doginansa hot dogeinaan hot dogeinansa translative hot dogikseen hot dogiksensa hot dogeikseen hot dogeiksensa abessive hot dogittaan hot dogittansa hot dogeittaan hot dogeittansa instructive — — comitative — hot dogeineen hot dogeinensa

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hot dog.

Noun

hot dog m (invariable)

1. hot dog (frankfurter in a bun)
2. (by extension) hot dog (the complete snack)

Synonyms

• würstel

Polish

hot dog

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from American English hot dog.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɔd.dɔk/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔddɔk
• Syllabification: [please specify syllabification manually]

Noun

hot dog m animal

1. 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

Declension of hot dog

	singular	plural
nominative	hot dog	hot dogi
genitive	hot doga	hot dogów
dative	hot dogowi	hot dogom
accusative	hot doga	hot dogi
instrumental	hot dogiem	hot dogami
locative	hot dogu	hot dogach
vocative	hot dogu	hot dogi

Further reading

• hot dog in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• hot dog in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• hot dog in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hot dog.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌʁɔ.t͡ʃiˈdɔ.ɡi/ [ˌhɔ.t͡ʃiˈdɔ.ɡi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌʁɔ.t͡ʃiˈdɔ.ɡi/ [ˌhɔ.t͡ʃiˈdɔ.ɡi]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˌʁɔ.t͡ʃiˈdɔ.ɡi/ [ˌχɔ.t͡ʃiˈdɔ.ɡi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌʁɔ.t͡ʃiˈdɔ.ɡe/ [ˌhɔ.t͡ʃiˈdɔ.ɡe]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.tɨ ˈdɔ.ɡɨ/ [ˈɔ.tɨ ˈðɔ.ɣɨ]

Noun

hot dog m (plural hot dogs)

1. (Brazil) hot dog (frankfurter in a bun)

   Synonym: cachorro-quente

Derived terms

• dogue

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hot dog.

Noun

hot dog m (plural hot dogi)

1. hot dog

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English hot dog.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌxod ˈdoɡ/ [ˌxoð̞ ˈð̞oɣ̞]

Noun

hot dog m (plural hot dogs or hot dog)

1. (Mexico, Peru) 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