doughnuttery

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A form of doughnutery — A doughnut shop.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

noundoughnuttery (plural doughnutteries)

plural doughnutteries

  1. alternativeAlternative form of doughnutery.

    Today it is a road of […] doggeries, crab-meateries, doughnutteries, clammeries; […]

    1935, Kenneth Roberts, For Authors Only and Other Gloomy Essays, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., page 433
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    And is it not wiser for the stomach’s sake to replenish one’s interior with country boiled beef rather than with the wretched unsubstantials that city doughnutteries afford?

    1895 August, Lillian Plunkett Ferguson, “This, That and the Other”, in The Traveler, volume VI, number 2, page 28

    But speaking about hotels, hasheries and doughnutteries, Friend Cobb says: “I know all that there is to know about good hotels and bad hotels, about good food and bad food, about the cafeteria pie and the lunch-stand sandwich, about the dining-car oyster and the way station doughnut and of these last-named two I greatly prefer the latter, because the way station doughnut can withstand any climate, and the dining-car oyster cannot and does not, as full well the seasoned traveler knows.”

    1919 May 24, Fred High (conductor), “Lyceum & Chautauqua: Confessions of a Platform Weevil: A Review of Irwin S. Cobb’s Saturday Evening Post Story of His Chautauqua Efforts—Some Inside Facts and Figures Show Why the Warrior Wars”, in The Billboard, volume XXXI, number 21, page 32

    In these pictures, taken at Maxwell House’s doughnuttery on Broadway, Red barely scratches the surface.

    1938 August 23, Pic, page 24

    Carlo looked as at the world of fallen man on the endless suburbs that passed for a city—[…] a doughnuttery; […]

    1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 320

    If you like to cook, this no-frills recipe will make a big trayful for a fragment of their price at the local doughnuttery.

    1991, Helen Witty, Dick Witty, Feed the Birds, New York, N.Y.: Workman Publishing, →ISBN, pages 91–92
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