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hamburgery en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From hamburger + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a hamburger.
   • The rope had scraped Jon’s palms to a hamburgery mush. 2019, Doug Bock Clark, The Last Whalers: The Life of an Endangered Tribe in a Land Left Behind, John Murray, →ISBN:
   • For his latest post, Kennedy’s tastebuds are probing the hamburgery goodness available at the B.C. legislature dining room. 2009 June 11, Amanda Ash, “The burger meister”, in Times Colonist, 151st year, number 180, page C1:
   • We’re the middle of Middle America, and if something that is “hamburgery” without being an actual hamburger can sell here, then it can sell anywhere. 2019 April 19, Daniel Neman, “A food writer sizes up BK’s Impossible Whopper”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 141, number 109, page 26:
   • Wet your hands and make your big hamburgery mess into hamburger patties. 2008 July 3, Leanne Ely, “If relationships were recipes”, in Springville Herald, page 14:
   • The bloody cockpit coated with the hamburgery flesh of copilots loomed up again in his mind. 2008, Gene Logsdon, The Last of the Husbandmen: A Novel of Farming Life, Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, →ISBN, page 170:
   • Sirloin didn’t look promising, with a pasty consistency, but it had a good “hamburgery” flavor. 2008 July 1, Kathleen Purvis, “Secrets of a perfect hamburger”, in The Charlotte Observer, volume 139, number 183, page 8E:

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hamburgery en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From hamburger + -ery.

Meanings

1. Synonym of burgery.
   • Signie [humorous signage wording] noticed in one of the hamburgeries the other night: “We Change Nothing Larger Than a $5 Bill.” 1935 July 23, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, volume 8, number 306, page 6:
   • William Masonic, proprietor of a hamburgery at 1701 Washington street, Waukegan, had started a business boom by the announcement that customers eating twenty-five hamburgers within the hour could tear up their checks, or eat them if they preferred. 1937 September 1, “Hamburger Dan Eats 25 in Hour—on the House!”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume XCVI, number 209, page 1:
   • One American hamburgery started out a few years ago with a capital of $5,000. 1937 June 5, “Hamburger in Merrie England: Broadway Promoter Starts for Sure Thing, Backed By British Money; Hot Dogs, too”, in The Decatur Daily Review, fifty-ninth year, number 248, page three:
   • Ernest Borgnine (who hit stardom as the lonesome butcher in “Marty”) is opening up a chain of drive-in hamburgeries in Mexico City. 1961 January 3, Corpus Christi Caller, volume 78, number 296, page 8B:
   • BUSINESS also boomed in the money printery, so much so that the treasury decided to build an $8,000,000 annex, covering the whole block whereon was located Mr. Duncan’s exceedingly profitable hamburgery. 1936 December 10, Frederick C. Othman, “Uncle Sam Becomes Silent Partner In Hamburger Stand”, in The Cushing Daily Citizen, volume XIV, number 126, page seven:

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Synonyms

burgery