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weiner roast † 

• a social affair at which frankfurters are roasted (or, more often, boiled) over an open fire, usually after dark, the group engaging in singing and other forms of entertainment.

  • Dictionaries usually prefer to give the spelling as wiener, thus preserving the etymological development from Wien Vienna, where this type of (Vienna) sausage originated. However, the spelling weiner is often met in North America, where it seems general in the combination weiner roast.

  • 1947  The weiner roast in the evening [of the picnic] was a feature.
  • 1957  . . . to end the two enjoyable days, [there was] a weiner roast for the children.
  • 1961  The group drove to the provincial campsite where a weiner roast proved a welcome break in sight-seeing.
  • 1966  Many will remember . . . the corn and weiner roast and . . . the Christmas eve gathering after carol singing.