Words & TermsPlaces and regional language
cheerios
Also: cheerio, Cheerio frankfurts
Small red-cased frankfurts or cocktail sausages.
In a sentence
The kids ate the cheerios before the party had properly started.
Where it came from
Cheerios is the Queensland name for the small red-cased sausages called cocktail frankfurts or little boys elsewhere. The regional label is documented in Australian food-language surveys.
- Initial era
- 1900–1999
- Where used
- Queensland