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chowmeinery

chowmeinery noun: a Chinese restaurant.

Noun

chowmeinery (plural chowmeineries)

  1. (US, dated, rare) A Chinese restaurant.
    • A flock of movie theaters, Chink chowmeineries, open-front orange juice joints, second-rate short order restaurants and cafeterias, […]1931, William R. Lipman, The Night is Long, page 97
    • The lubratorium (a place for greasing motorcars) is marching eastward from the Pacific Coast, and with it comes the chowmeinery and the radioteria.1935, The New Yorker (volume 11, part 2, page 33)

Forms of chowmeinery

pluralchowmeineries

Origin of chowmeinery

From chow mein + -ery.

Questions about chowmeinery

What does chowmeinery mean?
Chowmeinery means a Chinese restaurant.
What part of speech is chowmeinery?
Chowmeinery is a noun.
What is the plural of chowmeinery?
The plural of chowmeinery is chowmeineries.

Words near chowmeinery in the dictionary

  1. chowks
  2. chowline
  3. chowlines
  4. chowmein
  5. chowmeineries
  6. chowmeinery
  7. chown
  8. chowned
  9. chownee
  10. chownees
  11. chowning

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