eateryn.
/ˈiːtəri/ colloquial (originally U.S.).
An eating-house.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > eating-house or restaurant
eating-housec1440
feast house?c1475
victualling-house1541
cookshop1542
cookhouse1548
feasting house1563
treating-house1680
suttling-house1691
shop1695
chop shop1733
restaurateur1782
slap-bang shop1785
restorator1797
dinner house1803
restaurant1806
snack-house1820
grubbery1823
refreshment house1825
restauration1832
trattoria1832
slap-bang1836
ristorante1874
tavern-restaurant1880
foodery1892
eatery1901
taverna1914
chop-house1915
nosh1917
diner1924
noshery1952
ryotei1953
lokanta1954
Chinesery1956
relais routier1960
hotel1968
tratt1969
robata1975
fast foodery1979
Chinky1981
rodizio1981
taqueria1982
resto1988
paladar1994
1901 ‘H. McHugh’ Down Line 52 Muttheimer's is one of those eateries where the waiters look wise.
1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves i. 11 Why, then, was he lunching the girl at this God-forsaken eatery?
1927 Daily Express 30 Nov. 10/5 I think you served me with tea and toast at one of those cheap, colossal eating-houses in the West-End... No doubt you think that that clattering eatery..is ‘life’ and independence.
1938 M. Allingham Fashion in Shrouds xx. 366 Lugg and I have been round every fishy club and suspicious eatery in London.
1959 Times 26 May 8/1 His inability to make contact with a really good hunk of beefsteak in the eateries of Germany, Italy and France.
1959 Vogue June 124 Pull in at one of the curb-service eateries.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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