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Hooverizer en · NOUN

Etymology

From Hooverize + -er.

Meanings

1. One who Hooverizes.
   • ... food rationing named after Herbert Hoover, the program's administrator. Hooverizers abstained from certain foods on one or two days of the week; for example, wheatless Mondays and porkless Thursdays and Saturdays. 2005, Rosemarie Ostler, Dewdroppers, Waldos, and Slackers: A Decade-by-Decade Guide to the Vanishing Vocabulary of the Twentieth Century, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 18:
   • ... the simple repast was served and probably she might have said some unkind things, but it just so happened that the company were ardent “Hooverizers,” and they praised the good dinner as highly as it deserved. This set Mother to thinking. 1918, Home and School Visitor, page 88:
   • It is being bought by wage earners, by ThriftStamp owners, by Hooverizers, by every man who wants real, guaranteed value in a shoe which will cost him a reasonable price. 1918, Boot and Shoe Recorder, page 18:
   • When we poor Americans looked at the pure, clear liquid in the tiny bowl of Japanese fashion, I imagine more than one of us wished that we were as good “Hooverizers” on the sugar question as our little yellow brothers. 1917, Delta Delta Delta, The Trident of Delta Delta Delta, page 472:
   • These birds are no Hooverizers. They eat and they eat; then fly and fly; then eat some more. 1918, A Conspicuous National Service:

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