hamburgery

English

Etymology 1

From hamburger +‎ -y.

Adjective

hamburgery (comparative more hamburgery, superlative most hamburgery)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a hamburger.
   • 2008, Gene Logsdon, The Last of the Husbandmen: A Novel of Farming Life, Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, →ISBN, page 170:

     The bloody cockpit coated with the hamburgery flesh of copilots loomed up again in his mind.

   • 2008 July 1, Kathleen Purvis, “Secrets of a perfect hamburger”, in The Charlotte Observer, volume 139, number 183, page 8E:

     Sirloin didn’t look promising, with a pasty consistency, but it had a good “hamburgery” flavor.

   • 2008 July 3, Leanne Ely, “If relationships were recipes”, in Springville Herald, page 14:

     Wet your hands and make your big hamburgery mess into hamburger patties.

   • 2009 June 11, Amanda Ash, “The burger meister”, in Times Colonist, 151st year, number 180, page C1:

     For his latest post, Kennedy’s tastebuds are probing the hamburgery goodness available at the B.C. legislature dining room.

   • 2019, Doug Bock Clark, The Last Whalers: The Life of an Endangered Tribe in a Land Left Behind, John Murray, →ISBN:

     The rope had scraped Jon’s palms to a hamburgery mush.

   • 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:

     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.

Etymology 2

From hamburger +‎ -ery.

Alternative forms

• hamburgeria

Noun

hamburgery (plural hamburgeries)

1. Synonym of burgery
   • 1935 July 23, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, volume 8, number 306, page 6:

     Signie [humorous signage wording] noticed in one of the hamburgeries the other night: “We Change Nothing Larger Than a $5 Bill.”

   • 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:

     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.

   • 1937 June 5, “Hamburger in Merrie England: Broadway Promoter Starts for Sure Thing, Backed By British Money; Hot Dogs, too”, in The Decatur Daily Review, fifty-ninth year, number 248, page three:

     One American hamburgery started out a few years ago with a capital of $5,000.

   • 1937 September 1, “Hamburger Dan Eats 25 in Hour—on the House!”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume XCVI, number 209, page 1:

     William Masonic, proprietor of a hamburgery at 1701 Washington street, Waukegan, had started a business boom by the announcement that customers eating twenty-five hamburgers within the hour could tear up their checks, or eat them if they preferred.

   • 1961 January 3, Corpus Christi Caller, volume 78, number 296, page 8B:

     Ernest Borgnine (who hit stardom as the lonesome butcher in “Marty”) is opening up a chain of drive-in hamburgeries in Mexico City.