Citations:nutburger

English citations of nutburger

Noun: "a patty made from or containing nuts; a burger featuring such a patty"

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• 1939 — Aldous Huxley, After Many a Summer Dies The Swan, Harper & Brothers (1939), page 5:

  DRIVE IN FOR NUTBURGERS-whatever they were. He resolved at the earliest opportunity to have one. A nutburger and a jumbo malt.

• 1945 — Stephen Longstreet, Stallion Road, Julian Messer (1945), page 19:

  "Henry, if I wanted to make money I'd have put in a gas station at Stallion Road and sold nutburgers to passing tourists and bedded them down in cabins and mixed them Coca Colas. […]

• 1947 — Budd Schulberg, The Harder They Fall, Random House (1947), page 183:

  "Only nutburgers and cheeseburgers," I said. "How about a nice fruit salad?"

• 1968 — Rex Reed, Do You Sleep in the Nude?, New American Library (1968), page 123:

  He doesn't eat nutburgers or drink spinach juice, has never read Gayelord Hauser, and refuses to take vitamin pills.

• 1979 — Aaron Marc Stein, One Dip Dead, Crime Club (1979), →ISBN, page 105:

  Hans hadn't exaggerated about her cooking. If you've been thinking phony junk like nutburgers, forget it.

• 1983 — Betty Alexander James, "Twin City Treats", Vegetarian Times, August 1983:

  Try the fried rice with vegetables and nutburgers.

• 1988 — Michael A. Kahn, The Canaan Legacy, Lynx Books (1988), →ISBN, page 95:

  "A real chic place you got here, Rachel. Look at this menu. Nutburgers? What the hell's that? They got any ham hocks here?"

• 1990 — Mary Wings, She Came in a Flash, Plume (1990), →ISBN, page 53:

  There were vegetable pies and nutburgers, spinach lasagne and stuffed mushrooms simmering over candlelit hot plates.

• 1992 — Ellen Conford, Loving Someone Else, Random House (1992), →ISBN, page 107:

  Even nutburgers would taste good with Avery eating them next to me.

• 2006 — Darrell Scheweitzer, The Secret History of Vampires, Daw Books (2006), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  Turned out it was her day off, but exercising his considerable powers of cajolery, complementing him on his nutburgers, and promising to slip him two bucks the next time he popped in, Hix obtained the aspiring actress' name from Freddy the chef.

• 2006 — Scott Tucker, Better Strangers, iUniverse (2006), →ISBN, page 30:

  "Sometimes you need to go to a place that doesn't serve nutburgers or bean sprouts and omelets with names like Socrates' Revenge."

• 2007 — Rynn Berry & Chuck Abreu-Suzuki (with Barry Litsky), The Vegan Guide to New York City, Ethical Living (2007), →ISBN, page 5:

  Most health food shops offer an assortment of ready-to-eat foods for vegans — hummus sandwiches, nutburgers and salad — in the refrigerator case.

Noun: "(slang, derogatory) a person considered crazy or eccentric"

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• 1965 — The Twelfth Anniversary Playboy Reader, Playboy Press (1965), page 237:

  Most husbands, except utter nutburgers, don't cheat in the first few years.

• 1972 —Constantina Safilios-Rothschild, Toward a Sociology of Women, Xerox (1972), page 59:

  Like many other women I've come to respect it [the Women's Liberation Movement] late in the day, thinking at first that it was just an attack by a few hostile nutburgers who were giving ALL women a bad name….

• 1987 — Thomas Tryon, All That Glitters, Dell Books (1987), →ISBN, page 280:

  […] two of them, a pair, centaurs, those man-horses, prey of the Lapithae, banished from Thessaly lo these thousands of years since and now come to California, here beside the dark waters of Ocean Pacifica, to live among the nutburgers.

• 1997 — Keith Olbermann & Dan Patrick, The Big Show: Inside ESPN's SportsCenter, Pocket Books (1997), →ISBN, page 283:

  We — the adults especially, but also any kid who didn't throw his old cards away once school started — had been treated like nutburgers by our friends and families.

• 2001 — Ray Garton, Sex and Violence in Hollywood, E-Reads.com (2009), →ISBN, page 355:

  Adam turned to her and asked, "Do you know how many cretins… how many lunatics and nutburgers I'd have to deal with if I did something like that?"

• 2002 — D. J. MacHale, The Merchant of Death, Aladdin Paperbacks (2002), →ISBN, page 103:

  I made up my mind right there that the first chance I got, I'd get away from these nutburgers and get back to that flume thing.

• 2005 — Joshilyn Jackson, Gods in Alabama, Grand Central Publishing (2007), →ISBN, page 191:

  "She's a nutburger. She tracked me down at my job —"

• 2006 — Leah Isis-Morris, Lithium for Lunch, Lulu.com (2006), →ISBN, page 183:

  Nana was born into a family of nutburgers.

• 2008 — Heidi Rice, Skully Says Shut It!: Life, Love, and Laughter with Husband-Head, iUniverse (2008), →ISBN, page 121:

  "You are a nutburger," Husband-Head interrupted.

• 2010 — Al Roker & Dick Lochte, The Midnight Show Murders, Dell (2011), →ISBN, page 165:

  For that matter, was he enough of a nutburger to mix up a bomb, put on a ninja suit, and sneak into the theater with it, just to get rid of yours truly?

• 2011 — Jenn MicKinlay, Books Can Be Deceiving, Berkley Prime Crime (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  She hadn't started her life all over in Briar Creek to have it abruptly cut short by a nutburger with a grudge.

• 2011 — Lisa Papademetriou, Ice Dreams, Scholastic (2011), →ISBN, page 187:

  "You are such a nutburger, Delia," I told her, and she grinned.