hot dogn.adj.int.

1884 Evansville (Indiana) Daily Courier 14 Sept. 2/5 Even the innocent ‘wienerworst’ man will be barred from dispensing hot dog on the street corner.

1886 Nashville Tennessean 14 Nov. 9/2 ‘Hot stuff’, ‘hot pup’, ‘hot dog’, sings out..the wiener wurst fiend.

1912 Table Talk Apr. 210/1 ‘Ma, are we going to have “hot dog” for supper,’ says her son Richard. ‘Yes, Dick, but please don't say “hot dog” at the table, it makes me sick.’

1916 Stove Mounters & Range Workers Jrnl. Oct. 302/2 The menu was a tempting affair, as follows: Hot dog (I mean sausage), bean soup, more hot sausage, cheese with mustard thrown in and plenty of hot and cold drinks.

1928 S. Vines Humours Unreconciled ii. 35 If one trained on hot dog, pumpkin pie, graham flour, ice-cream sundaes.

1985 Los Angeles Times 11 July viii. 40/3 Alternate slices of hot dog with chunks of green pepper, onion and tiny cherry tomatoes on metal skewers.

2011 C. Sheinmel Sincerely 95 Instead of mushrooms there are little pieces of hot dog on the pizza.

1892 Paterson (New Jersey) Daily Press 31 Dec. 5/2 The ‘hot dog’ was quickly inserted in a gash in a roll, a dash of mustard also splashed on to the ‘dog’ with a piece of flat whittled stick, and the order was fulfilled.

1893 Knoxville (Tenn.) Jrnl. 28 Sept. 5 The weinerwurst men began preparing to get the ‘hot dogs’ ready for sale Saturday night.

1908 ‘O. Henry’ Gentle Grafter 97 Sitting on a cake of ice we ate seven hot dogs.

1922 National Druggist Nov. 475/1 If you want a hot sandwich of your own, we have the frankfurter, better known as the ‘hot dog’, which may be cooked on the premises.

1930 Boys' Life Mar. 21/3 Amy dropped anchor where a line of hot dogs in buns lay innocently waiting to be purchased.

1957 London Mag. Dec. 19 There is a pier with all the usual sideshows, hot dogs, hamburger and ice cream stands.

1970 New Yorker 12 Sept. 50/3 She came back with a hot dog... The smell..was..persuasive.

1993 V. Staten Can You trust Tomato in Jan.? (1994) 213 The hot dog of today is only a distant relative of Charles Feltman's frankfurters. Feltman made his from chunk beef, ground lean pork, pork juice, [etc.].

2003 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) June 233/1 They'd gather at the Pasadena place to nosh on Pink's hot dogs and Orange Crush.

1894 Wrinkle (Univ. Michigan) 18 Oct. (title page) Two Greeks a ‘hot dog’ freshman sought. The Clothes they found, their favor bought.

1903 O. F. Adams Some Famous Amer. Schools 163 To unravel the meaning of..‘hot dog’,..Lawrenceville usage applies it to the boy who, while doing something out of the ordinary way, however excellently, conveys the impression that there is something of the ‘swelled head’ about it.

1904 G. Ade Breaking into Society 184 I sometimes suspect I am not qualified to be a Hot Dog.

1959 J. Brosnan Long Season 221 He may be a Hot Dog but I don't know where Scheffing would be without him.

1966 Atlantic Mar. 131 We had this one [basketball] player..who could hit nine out of ten from the foul line with his back to the basket. He was a real hot dog.

1973 Time (Canad. ed.) 16 July 51/1 Some National League players accuse him of being a ‘hot dog’—baseballese for show-off.

1990 N.Y. Woman Apr. 58/2 I do carry myself like a bit of a hot dog sometimes... I'm not afraid of giving lip to some guy twice my size.

2005 New Yorker 18 Apr. 105/2 He descends carefully. He is not a hot dog.

1963 Observer 13 Oct. 15/6 He always owns two boards at any one time, one ‘hot dog’ board and a ‘big gun’ (which is a foot or so longer) for riding really big waves.

1970 Surf '70 (N.Z.) 44/2 While in Hawaii I had two boards. They were an 8 ft 9 in ‘hot-dog’ and a 9 ft 6 in tracker type gun.

1991 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 20 Jan. 7/4 The hot-dog board alone fetches $1800 in the land of the rising wave.

2000 Florida Times-Union (Nexis) 5 May go-10 Surfboards are like golf clubs... You need more than one club to have fun. If you have a long, fun and a hot dog [board], you complete your quiver.