hamburgery
nounEtymology From hamburger + -ery.
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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:
- 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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- 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:
- 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:
- 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: