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hamburgery

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English

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Etymology 1

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From hamburger +‎ -y.

Adjective

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hamburgery (comparative more hamburgery, superlative most hamburgery)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a hamburger.
    • 2008, Gene Logsdon, The Last of the Husbandmen: A Novel of Farming Life, Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, →ISBN, page 170:
      The bloody cockpit coated with the hamburgery flesh of copilots loomed up again in his mind.
    • 2008 July 1, Kathleen Purvis, “Secrets of a perfect hamburger”, in The Charlotte Observer, volume 139, number 183, page 8E:
      Sirloin didn’t look promising, with a pasty consistency, but it had a good “hamburgery” flavor.
    • 2008 July 3, Leanne Ely, “If relationships were recipes”, in Springville Herald, page 14:
      Wet your hands and make your big hamburgery mess into hamburger patties.
    • 2009 June 11, Amanda Ash, “The burger meister”, in Times Colonist, 151st year, number 180, page C1:
      For his latest post, Kennedy’s tastebuds are probing the hamburgery goodness available at the B.C. legislature dining room.
    • 2019, Doug Bock Clark, The Last Whalers: The Life of an Endangered Tribe in a Land Left Behind, John Murray, →ISBN:
      The rope had scraped Jon’s palms to a hamburgery mush.
    • 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:
      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.

Etymology 2

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From hamburger +‎ -ery.

Alternative forms

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Noun

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hamburgery (plural hamburgeries)

  1. Synonym of burgery
    • 1935 July 23, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, volume 8, number 306, page 6:
      Signie [humorous signage wording] noticed in one of the hamburgeries the other night: “We Change Nothing Larger Than a $5 Bill.”
    • 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:
      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.
    • 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:
      One American hamburgery started out a few years ago with a capital of $5,000.
    • 1937 September 1, “Hamburger Dan Eats 25 in Hour—on the House!”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume XCVI, number 209, page 1:
      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.
    • 1961 January 3, Corpus Christi Caller, volume 78, number 296, page 8B:
      Ernest Borgnine (who hit stardom as the lonesome butcher in “Marty”) is opening up a chain of drive-in hamburgeries in Mexico City.