chowmeinery
English
Etymology
chow mein + -ery
Noun
chowmeinery (plural chowmeineries)
- (US, dated, rare) A Chinese restaurant.
- 1931, William R. Lipman, The Night is Long (page 97)
- A flock of movie theaters, Chink chowmeineries, open-front orange juice joints, second-rate short order restaurants and cafeterias, […]
- 1935, The New Yorker (volume 11, part 2, page 33)
- The lubratorium (a place for greasing motorcars) is marching eastward from the Pacific Coast, and with it comes the chowmeinery and the radioteria.
- 2008, Ralph O. Cunningham, Joe Ruggier, Schwanengesang: Poems (page 21)
- Chowmeineries flop out of Grant Street's hip pocket
- 1931, William R. Lipman, The Night is Long (page 97)