beanery
beanery noun: an inexpensive restaurant or cafe; a bistro.
Noun
beanery (plural beaneries)
- An inexpensive restaurant or cafe; a bistro.
- Do not make the excuse that you cannot get the right foods at the beaneries. The beaneries are going to serve just what the customers demand and when enough of you fellows get to demanding vitalized foods you are going to get them.1924 July, Locomotive Engineers Journal, volume 58, page 541
- I had nothing to lose but the chains, and I hoped to find down the county roads Ma in her beanery and Pap over his barbecue pit, both still serving slow food from the same place they did thirty years ago. Where-you-from-buddy restaurants.1982, William Least Heat-Moon [pseudonym; William Trogdon], Blue Highways, →ISBN, page 16
Forms of beanery
| plural | beaneries |
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Origin of beanery
From bean + -ery.
Questions about beanery
- What does beanery mean?
- Beanery means an inexpensive restaurant or cafe; a bistro.
- What part of speech is beanery?
- Beanery is a noun.
- What is the plural of beanery?
- The plural of beanery is beaneries.
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