Hershey

English

Etymology

From Hercé in Normandy. The Hershey Company is named after its founder, Milton S. Hershey.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɝʃi/

Proper noun

Hershey

1. A surname.
2. (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) A company which manufactures food products, most known for its chocolate.
3. A village in Lincoln County, Nebraska, United States, named for J. H. Hershey, a pioneer settler.
4. Any of the company towns named for and operated by the Hershey Company.
   1. A census-designated place in Pennsylvania, United States
   2. An unincorporated community in California, United States
   3. A village in Mayabeque, Cuba, also known as Camilo Cienfuegos.

Derived terms

• Hershey highway
• Hershey squirts

Noun

A Hershey bar

Hershey (plural Hersheys)

1. A confection produced by The Hershey Company.
   • 1963, Elliott Chaze, “Millionaires Don’t Go Out in the Yard”, in Two Roofs and a Snake on the Door, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Collier-Macmillan Limited, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10:

     But she knows her friends and if she likes you she will go for walks with you and even eat a Hershey in front of the drugstore if you buy her one.

   • 1982, M[ary] F[rances] K[ennedy] Fisher, “Young Hunger”, in As They Were, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 35:

     Then I arranged all my own and my roommate’s pillows in a voluptuous pile, placed so that I could see whether a silent housemotherly foot stood outside the swaying monk’s-cloth curtain that served as a door (to cut down our libidinous chitchat, the school board believed), and I put my hoard of Hersheys discreetly under a fold of the bedspread.

   • 1988, Rebecca Busselle, “No Way Out”, in Bathing Ugly (A Richard Jackson Book), New York, N.Y.: Orchard Books, →ISBN, page 51:

     Like a cash register, the word candy bar rang up a Hershey in my mind. […] I saw the Hershey scored in ten squares and imagined breaking one off, pushing it to the roof of my mouth to ooze down my throat. I had been five whole days without candy.

   • 1989, Steve Abbott, “The Monastery”, in Holy Terror, Freedom, Calif.: The Crossing Press, →ISBN, section 4, page 46:

     I remembered a Hershey in my shirt pocket. I broke off a piece and ate it.