Definition of "knockwurst" []

• Variant of knackwurst. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Bill Livingston of The Plain Dealer: "When Chicago's Joakim Noah barked at James in another lopsided Cavs victory Friday night, rebuking James for dancing on the sideline and disrespecting the Bulls, it was a case of the bratwurst calling the knockwurst a hotdog."
• "How empty and lifeless would Twain's prose be without words like pneumatic, knockwurst, and gnu?"
• "The knockwurst was quite good, the sauer kraut was that weak kind without spice, but with some rye seeds added, and the potato salad was just okay."