hamburgery
hamburgery adjective: resembling or characteristic of a hamburger.
Adjective
hamburgery (comparative more hamburgery, superlative most hamburgery)
- Resembling or characteristic of a hamburger.
- The bloody cockpit coated with the hamburgery flesh of copilots loomed up again in his mind.2008, Gene Logsdon, The Last of the Husbandmen: A Novel of Farming Life, Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, →ISBN, page 170
- Sirloin didn’t look promising, with a pasty consistency, but it had a good “hamburgery” flavor.2008 July 1, Kathleen Purvis, “Secrets of a perfect hamburger”, in The Charlotte Observer, volume 139, number 183, page 8E
Noun
hamburgery (plural hamburgeries)
- 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
- Synonyms:
- burgery
Examples of hamburgery in a sentence
- Wet your hands and make your big hamburgery mess into hamburger patties.2008 July 3, Leanne Ely, “If relationships were recipes”, in Springville Herald, page 14:
- For his latest post, Kennedy’s tastebuds are probing the hamburgery goodness available at the B.C. legislature dining room.2009 June 11, Amanda Ash, “The burger meister”, in Times Colonist, 151st year, number 180, page C1:
- The rope had scraped Jon’s palms to a hamburgery mush.2019, Doug Bock Clark, The Last Whalers: The Life of an Endangered Tribe in a Land Left Behind, John Murray, →ISBN:
- 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.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:
Synonyms of hamburgery
Forms of hamburgery
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more hamburgery |
| superlative | most hamburgery |
| Noun | |
| plural | hamburgeries |
| alternative form | hamburgeria |
Origin of hamburgery
From hamburger + -y.
From hamburger + -ery.
Questions about hamburgery
- What does hamburgery mean?
- Hamburgery means resembling or characteristic of a hamburger.
- How do you use hamburgery in a sentence?
- Wet your hands and make your big hamburgery mess into hamburger patties.
- What part of speech is hamburgery?
- Hamburgery can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near hamburgery in the dictionary
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