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undertakery en · NOUN

Etymology

undertaker + -ery

Meanings

  1. (informal, uncountable) The work of an undertaker.
    • Upon the whole, the absence of mere "undertakery" from the procession was a great gain. 1851, The Ecclesiologist, Ecclesiological Society, page 414:
    • […] we feel how immeasurably superior they were to the meretricious undertakery of the present day. We are led to contrast the quiet graves of the ancient "brethren" with the suburban cemetery of our own times […] 1867, The Argosy, volumes 3-4, page 60: