bakery
Substantivhäufig in Dialogen
- //ˈbeɪ.kə.ɹi//
- //ˈbeɪk.ɹi//
A place in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold.
Substantiv
- 1
A place in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold.
- 2
The trade of a baker.
- 3
Baked goods.
Fresh bakery!
1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Bridget & Jacob were coming home from the hospital bout 11:30. Kathy & I made a little "brunch" of bakery & coffee.
Then, later, I think I saw them at Lemke's Tomahawk Foods getting roasted chicken from the delicatessen and at Nelson's County Market picking up some bakery and fruit. It looked like they were going on a picnic.
She set about preparing the house for everyone to come over. She and Danielle made the sandwiches and put them in the refrigerator. They got out plates, glasses, napkins and silverware and set up a buffet table. Chuck went to the bakery and got some bakery.
- 4
SlangA large pair of buttocks.
He's got a whole damn bakery back there!
Herkunft
From bake + -ery (“place of”). Replaced earlier bakehouse. Originally "place for making bread"; as "shop where baked goods are sold", it was believed by British travelers by 1832 to be an American-invented term. Sense 4 is by analogy with cake (“buttocks”).
Formen
- Plural
- bakeries
bakery · A place in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold.
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