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Waitrosey

Waitrosey adjective: characteristic of the upmarket Waitrose supermarket chain.

Adjective

Waitrosey (comparative more Waitrosey, superlative most Waitrosey)

  1. (UK, informal, rare) Characteristic of the upmarket Waitrose supermarket chain
    • Debit cards make you feel virtuous in a Waitrosey/Volvo kind of way, but you can't delay payment for 30 days, and, more important, you have no consumer protection.2005, Country Life, volume 199, page 88
    • There is no way that Tesco could justify such a massive hike. All prices at the big supermarkets are arbitrary and have little bearing on the actual intrinisc worth of any ingredient. They have a profit margin to maintain and I expect some bright spark suggested that grapeseed oil sounded a bit...2008, MM, “Tesco's 185% increase in the price of grapeseed oil”, in uk.legal (Usenet)

Forms of Waitrosey

comparativemore Waitrosey
superlativemost Waitrosey

Origin of Waitrosey

From Waitrose (after its founders Wallace Waite and Arthur Rose) + -y.

Questions about Waitrosey

What does Waitrosey mean?
Waitrosey means characteristic of the upmarket Waitrose supermarket chain.
What part of speech is Waitrosey?
Waitrosey is an adjective.

Words near Waitrosey in the dictionary

  1. waitrices
  2. waitrix
  3. waitron
  4. waitrons
  5. Waitrose effect
  6. Waitrosey
  7. waits
  8. waits a minute
  9. waits and sees
  10. waits around
  11. waits for

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