Sorry. Bad joke, Irena.
Citizen/s of Berlin = Berliner
Citizen/s of Vienna (Wien) = Wiener
Oh! So you meant something like whiner? Funny. I thought you were referring to some type of food or drink or something.
Irena, you aren't by any chance trying to get me to drop myself in it again, are you? (Not that you'd tried to do that the last time, I know that! Managed to do that all on my own. Still...)
https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/wiener
That MacMillian dictionary is a good example of why, just because something is in a dictionary, doesn’t mean it’s 100% correct all the time.
Wiener=Frankfurter: At least where I live (and I always preface what I say with this because this may not be true in other parts of the country, so I’m not saying this is some kind of rule), but this only appears on packages in supermarkets. Yes, the package will say “wieners” or “frankfurters”, but people don’t really call them that normally. For someone to call them that would sound unusual to me. Maybe once in a while, but usually they’d just refer to them as “Hot Dogs.” I personally never use the word wiener or frankfurter ever, to refer to anything. I know what it means, but it’s just not part of my active English vocabulary. Maybe it’s because I know Wiener and Frankfurter as German words and I think they don’t make good English loan words (Lehnwörter).
To say a “wiener” is a pejorative word for a weak person? That’s maybe true in some places, but that’s not what I heard as a kid growing up. We said, “You wienie.” Not “wiener.” And, as far as it being a slang word for p e n i s, yeah, maybe once. Like in the 1960s, but not now. I don’t think I’ve heard anyone use it as such in so long I can't even say when. There’s too many other more modern slang words to pick from.
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