Word.ws English Dictionary

burgery

burgery noun: the governing body of a burgh or borough; burgage.

Noun (1)

burgery (plural burgeries)

  1. The governing body of a burgh or borough; burgage.

Noun (2)

burgery (plural burgeries)

  1. A fast-food restaurant specialising in hamburgers
    Synonyms:
    hamburgery

Adjective

burgery (comparative more burgery, superlative most burgery)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a burger.
    • Steaming tempeh in a flavoured sauce can give it a ‘burgery’ flavour with no great effort.1993, Leah Leneman, 365 Plus One Vegan Recipes: Delicious Meals and Ideas for Every Day of the Year, London: Thorsons; HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 98
    • It’s the burgery smell I just can’t resist / Everything is hamburgers / On my Christmas list.2003 fall, Caitlin Lam, “Hamburgers”, in A Celebration of Young Poets: Northeast – Fall 2003, Logan, Ut.: Creative Communication, Inc., published 2004, page 54
    Synonyms:
    hamburgery

Examples of burgery in a sentence

  • For a more classic burgery taste, go with a blend of the two.2006, How to Boil Water: Life Beyond Takeout (Food Network Kitchens), Des Moines, Ia.: Meredith Books, →ISBN, page 61:
  • The other is the Shops at National Place (529 W 14th St NW), inside the National Press Club Building, where Five Guys wafts its burgery goodness.2012 November, Karla Zimmerman, Regis St Louis, Washington, DC, 5th edition, Footscray, Vic.; Oakland, Calif.; London: Lonely Planet...
  • Refused burgery goodness on grounds of prior shitheadery, he threatened an employee’s life.2020 September 16, Kevin L. Hoover, “Arcata Police Log: The Era of Annoyance cedes to the Age of Aggressive Obnoxiousness”, in Mad River...

Synonyms of burgery

Forms of burgery

Noun
pluralburgeries
alternative formburgeria
Adjective
comparativemore burgery
superlativemost burgery

Origin of burgery

Probably from Latin burgāria. By surface analysis, burg + -ery.

From burger + -ery.

From burger + -y.

Questions about burgery

What does burgery mean?
Burgery means the governing body of a burgh or borough; burgage.
How do you use burgery in a sentence?
For a more classic burgery taste, go with a blend of the two.
What part of speech is burgery?
Burgery can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of burgery?
The plural of burgery is burgeries.

Words near burgery in the dictionary

  1. burgernomics
  2. burgerology
  3. burgers
  4. Burgers vector
  5. Burgers vectors
  6. burgery
  7. Burges
  8. Burgeson
  9. Burgesons
  10. burgess
  11. Burgess Hill

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: burgery (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-burgery.wav.

Cite this entry: “burgery.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/burgery. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.