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wurst

/wɝst/ US
/vɝst/ US
/vʊɹst/ US
/wɜːst/ UK
/vɜːst/ UK
/vʊəst/ UK

Sounds like worst (one pronunciation) · Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)st

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First attested in 1890. Borrowed from German Wurst (“sausage, wurst”), from Middle High German wurst, from Old High German wurst, from Proto-West Germanic *wursti (“something turned or twisted”), from Proto-Indo-European *wert-, *werd- (“to turn”).

Akin to Old Saxon worst (“wurst”), Old English weorþan (“to turn, become”). Doublet of wors. Unrelated to worsted (“type of yarn”). More at worth (“to be, become, betide”).

noun wursts · würste · würst

countable, uncountable A German- or Austrian-style sausage. If you pick up a package of liverwurst (German wurst, sausage), you may find that it contains, in addition to liver, nonfat dry milk, salt, corn syrup, flavorings (unspecified), sodium erythrobate, sodium nitrate, sodium nitrite, gelatin, and dextrose. The list reads like a list of chemicals for a l

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noun German- or Austrian-style sausage

Français	wurst
Deutsch	Wurst
Русский	вурст vurst

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@misc{wurst_2026,
  title = {wurst},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wurst},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}