Hamburgern.
1. A native or inhabitant of Hamburg. Also attributive or as adj.
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Nuremberger1632
Berliner1859
1617 G. Carew Let. 18 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.
1653 W. Gee Let. 16 June in M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family Commonwealth (1894) ii. 56 They had been fired upon by an English ship, and had pursued ‘a Hamburger’.
1737 London Mag. Feb. 81/2 (heading) Of the City of Hamburgh, with several Observations on the Hamburghers, and other Germans.
1798 D. Wordsworth Jrnl. (1941) I. ii. 21 Hamburgher girls with white caps.
1856 ‘G. Eliot’ in Westm. Rev. 9 14 The fair Hamburghers acted in the spirit of Johnson's advice to Hannah More.
1932 L. Golding Magnolia St. ii. iv. 314 The stolid young Hamburgers who went out rowing on Sundays on the Alster.
1966 Guardian 5 Nov. 7/3 He had the welfare of the sleeping Hamburghers in mind.
2. (Now frequently with lower-case initial.) In full Hamburger steak = Hamburg steak n. at steak n. 2c; 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. Originally U.S.
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quarter-pounder1847
Hamburg steak1884
Hamburger1889
Salisbury steak1897
cheeseburgerc1930
nutburger1934
Wimpy1935
burger1939
lamburger1939
beefburger1940
sausage-burger1942
Sloppy Joe1942
turtleburger1946
mooseburger1948
jumboburger1959
Big Mac1969
soy burger1973
slider1974
soya burger1974
1889 Walla Walla (Washington) Union 5 Jan. 2/4 You are asked if you will have ‘porkchopbeefsteakhamandegghamburgersteakorliverandbacon’.
1901 G. Ade 40 Mod. Fables 285 After the kid had been carried out of the Ring looking like a Hamburger Steak.
1902 Encycl. 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 xiv. 118 Out of date eggs, last year's hamburger and over ripe limburger.
1912 I. S. Cobb Back Home 147 A vendor..sold to the same customers..odorous hamburger and flat slabs..of striped ice-cream.
1920 Chambers's Jrnl. 348/2 Hamburger steaks and German pot roasts.
1929 E. Hemingway Farewell to Arms ii. xv. 106 They had the look of not too freshly ground hamburger steak.
1931 ‘B. 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.
1943 R.A.F. Jrnl. Aug. 10 She held a pair of..gloves in one hand and a hamburger sandwich in the other.
1950 Manch. Guardian Weekly 6 Apr. 3 After much pleasantry over the hamburgers and hot dogs.
1957 London Mag. Dec. 19 There is a pier with all the usual sideshows, hot dog, hamburger and ice-cream stands.
1960 Times 30 Jan. 11/7 The mounting number of hamburger bars suggests that it is here to stay.
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