1.
[syn: frank, frankfurter, hotdog, hot dog, dog, wiener, wienerwurst, weenie]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
weenie
n 1: a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually
smoked; often served on a bread roll [syn: frank,
frankfurter, hotdog, hot dog, dog, wiener,
wienerwurst, weenie]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
20 Moby Thesaurus words for "weenie":
Vienna sausage, bangers, black pudding, blood pudding, bologna,
braunschweiger, frank, frankfurter, gooseliver, headcheese,
hot dog, knockwurst, liver sausage, liverwurst, salami, saucisse,
sausage, wiener, wienerwurst, wienie
The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
weenie
n.
1. [on BBSes] Any of a species of luser resembling a less amusing version
of B1FF that infests many BBS systems. The typical weenie is a teenage
boy with poor social skills travelling under a grandiose handle derived
from fantasy or heavy-metal rock lyrics. Among sysops, the weenie problem
refers to the marginally literate and profanity-laden flamage weenies
tend to spew all over a newly-discovered BBS. Compare spod, geek,
terminal junkie, warez d00dz.
2. [among hackers] When used with a qualifier (for example, as in Unix
weenie, VMS weenie, IBM weenie) this can be either an insult or a term of
praise, depending on context, tone of voice, and whether or not it is
applied by a person who considers him or herself to be the same sort of
weenie. Implies that the weenie has put a major investment of time, effort,
and concentration into the area indicated; whether this is good or bad
depends on the hearer's judgment of how the speaker feels about that area.
See also bigot.
3. The semicolon character, ; (ASCII 0111011).
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
weenie
1. [on BBSes] Any of a species of luser resembling a less
amusing version of BIFF that infests many BBSes. The
typical weenie is a teenage boy with poor social skills
travelling under a grandiose handle derived from fantasy or
heavy-metal rock lyrics. Among sysops, "the weenie problem"
refers to the marginally literate and profanity-laden
flamage weenies tend to spew all over a newly-discovered
BBS.
Compare spod, computer geek, terminal junkie.
2. Among hackers, when used with a qualifier (for example, as
in Unix weenie, VMS weenie, IBM weenie) this can be
either an insult or a term of praise, depending on context,
tone of voice, and whether or not it is applied by a person
who considers him or herself to be the same sort of weenie.
It implies that the weenie has put a major investment of time,
effort and concentration into the area indicated; whether this
is good or bad depends on the hearer's judgment of how the
speaker feels about that area. See also bigot.
3. The semicolon character, ";" (ASCII 59).
(1995-01-18)