bagelry

B3A1G2E1L1R1Y4
/ˈbeɪɡəlɹi/

noun

A bagel shop.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounbagelry (plural bagelries)

plural bagelries

  1. A bagel shop.

    The area also boasts a wide variety of cafés and restaurants, from casual bagelries to elegant eateries.

    1992, Bruce Patterson, Alberta: An Altitude SuperGuide, Banff, Alta.: Altitude Publishing, →ISBN, page 250
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    I stopped by my favorite north Minneapolis bagelry Saturday to pick up a dozen of the things and when I got home I discovered I had, not a sackful of bagels, but a sackful of I don’t know what. […] I called the lady at the bagelry and accused her of giving me some deformed Parker House rolls.

    1957 June 17, Will Jones, “Buck Up, You Bagels”, in Minneapolis Morning Tribune, volume XCI, number 24, Minneapolis, Minn., page 38

    If you’re really lucky, they may tell you of Mendele Pravda, the sailor with a bagel in every port, who set up bagelries in Shanghai, in Africa, wherever ship touched shore.

    1960 October 28, Rachel A. Rabinowicz, “Sure ‘Tis Green Bagels We’ll Be Havin’ On St. Paddy’s Day in the Paddy Wagon Yet”, in National Jewish Post and Opinion, volume XVI, number 10, page 3

    Take it from other probagelers (this is a subject on which there is no room for objectivity) such as Moishe and his fellow workers at a Hempstead bagelry—all loyal members of Bagel Bakers Union Local 338, who have devoted their lives to bagels.

    1964 September 26, Harvey Aronson, “Confessions of a Bagelphile”, in Newsday, volume 25, number 20, page 38

    In exchange for a monopoly on designer jean stores, Jacuzzi dealers, travel agencies, foreign car repair garages, bagelries, and four-star French restaurants, Pacific Heights had to accept an unlimited number of drug rehabilitation residence programs, after-hours clubs, massage parlors and head shops.

    1981 April, Bright Mellomeyer, “24th St. Zoned for Franks”, in Noe Valley Voice, volume V, number 3, page 8

    Co-owner Peter Ryan learned his craft in the bagelries of NYC, and most of his bosses weren't Jewish either, so he has no qualms about offering such un[-]kosher concoctions as ham and Swiss with mayo and sprouts on a whole-wheat bagel.

    1990, Kathryn Robinson, Stephanie Irving, editors, Seattle Cheap Eats: 300 Terrific Bargain Eateries, Sasquatch Books, →ISBN, page 23

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰewgʰ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰowgʰ-o-s
  3. Proto-Germanic*baugaz
  4. Proto-West Germanic*baug
  5. Old High Germanboug
  6. Middle High Germanbouc
  7. Yiddishבייגל (beygl)
  8. Englishbagel
  9. Englishbagelry

From bagel + -ry.

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