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burglaree en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From burglar + -ee.

Meanings

1. (nonstandard, rare) One who is burgled.
   • They want details from the burgled, the burglaree, the burglar being unavailable, so they would know where exactly in the house resistance might come from if they matured and were on a breaking and entering sortie themselves. 2017, Bill James, Close:
   • When The Critic solicited Phelps's opinion on international copyright, she said, “It seems to me there can be but two opinions on such a matter, and that they cannot be unlike those of the burglar and of the burglaree” (“An Appeal” 65). 2004, Jennifer Cognard-Black, Narrative in the Professional Age:
   • To that the inner voice, resourceful devil that he was, had a persuasive counterargument: a burglary a few doors away, two days before I hit Mapes, would make Friday's burglary look like part of a string, and Mapes an incidental victim rather than a designated burglaree. 2011, Lawrence Block, The Bernie Rhodenbarr Mysteries: Volume Two:
   • What was the world coming to when a burglar blamed the burglaree for causing the break-in? 2014, Dane McCaslin, Becklaw's Murder Mystery Tour:

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burglaree en · NOUN · etymology 2

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, nonstandard, rare, uncountable) Alternative form of burglary.
   alt of burglary
   • A loyal son of Texas Went out upon a spree Perpetrated six murders, Some rape and burglaree. 2006, Bill Neal, Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier, page 3:
   • Beware, – to touch a beadle is, at least, flat burglaree. 1879, Thomas Forder Plowman, Herne the Hunter, Or, The Days of the Bluff King Hal, page 37:
   • "Don't worry. We're just swapping soldiery for burglaree," said Fal. "Seeing as you disapprove of us doing soldiery properly." 2000, Dave Freer, Eric Flint, Rats, Bats and Vats:
   • A rollicking band of pirates we, Who, tired of tossing on the sea, Are trying their hand at a burglaree! 1880, Sir Arthur Sullivan, The Pirates of Penzance, page 33:

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