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Hamburger
Also -burgher, † -bourger.
[G. Hamburger a native or inhabitant of Hamburg in Germany.]
1. A native or inhabitant of Hamburg. Also attrib. or as adj.
1616G. Carew Let. Jan. (1860) 81 The Kinge of Denmarke..purposeth to build a stronge fort vppon the River of Elbe, requiringe the Hambourgers to permitt 3,000 of his men to passe throughe there towne. 1653W. Gee Let. 16 June in M. M. Verney Memoirs (1894) III. ii. 56 They had been fired upon by an English ship, and had pursued ‘a Hamburger’. 1737London Mag. Feb. 81/2 (heading) Of the City of Hamburgh, with several Observations on the Hamburghers, and other Germans. 1798D. Wordsworth Jrnl. Visit to Hamburgh (1941) I. ii. 21 Hamburgher girls with white caps. 1856Geo. Eliot in Westm. Rev. IX. 14 The fair Hamburghers acted in the spirit of Johnson's advice to Hannah More. 1932L. Golding Magnolia St. ii. iv. 314 The stolid young Hamburgers who went out rowing on Sundays on the Alster. 1966Guardian 5 Nov. 7/3 He had the welfare of the sleeping Hamburghers in mind.
2. (Now freq. with lower-case initial.) In full Hamburger steak = Hamburg steak (see steak 2 c); also, a kind of sausage. Now, chopped beef, spiced and flavoured, formed into a cake and fried, often served between two halves of a toasted bun. So hamburger bar, etc. orig. U.S.
1889Walla Walla (Wash.) Union 5 Jan. 2/4 You are asked if you will have ‘porkchopbeefsteakhamandegghamburgersteakorliverandbacon’. 1901Ade 40 Mod. Fables 285 After the kid had been carried out of the Ring looking like a Hamburger Steak. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 558/2 Hamburger steak with onions. 1908‘Yeslah’ Tenderfoot S. Calif. xiv. 118 Out of date eggs, last year's hamburger and over ripe limburger. 1912I. S. Cobb Back Home 147 A vendor..sold to the same customers..odorous hamburger and flat slabs..of striped ice-cream. 1920Chambers's Jrnl. 348/2 Hamburger steaks and German pot roasts. 1929E. Hemingway Farewell to Arms ii. xv. 106 They had the look of not too freshly ground hamburger steak. 1931B. Starke Touch & Go iv. 58 A truck driver transporting two huge draft horses took us to Bryan, where he grandly ‘set 'em up’ to hamburgers and coffee. 1943R.A.F. Jrnl. Aug. 10 She held a pair of..gloves in one hand and a hamburger sandwich in the other. 1950Manch. Guardian Weekly 6 Apr. 3 After much pleasantry over the hamburgers and hot dogs. 1957London Mag. Dec. 19 There is a pier with all the usual sideshows, hot dog, hamburger and ice-cream stands. 1960Times 30 Jan. 11/7 The mounting number of hamburger bars suggests that it is here to stay. |