burger

¹

[ bur-ger ]

noun

1. a hamburger.
2. a food patty, or patty on a bun, containing ingredients other than beef:

   veggie or turkey burgers.

Burger

²

[ bur-ger ]

noun

1. Warren Earl, 1907–1995, U.S. jurist: chief justice of the U.S. 1969–86.

-burger

³

1. a combining form extracted from hamburger, occurring in compounds the initial element of which denotes a special garnish for a hamburger or a substitute ingredient for the meat patty:

   baconburger; cheeseburger; fishburger.

Bürger

¹

/ ˈbyrɡər /

noun

1. BürgerGottfried August17471794MGermanWRITING: poet Gottfried August (ˈɡɔtfriːt ˈauɡʊst). 1747–94, German lyric poet, noted particularly for his ballad Lenore (1773)

burger

²

/ ˈbɜːɡə /

noun

1. informal.
   1. short for hamburger
   2. ( in combination )

      a cheeseburger

Word History and Origins

Origin of burger¹

1935–40, Americanism; extracted from hamburger by false analysis as ham ¹ + burger

Example Sentences

Thankfully, the Coleman kids reached a Burger King, and Wahlberg and his amateur biker gang rode off.

From The Daily Beast

On Friday afternoon, I stood by the Burger King checking the bars on my phone like a kid with a curfew.

From The Daily Beast

He was hungry, so he brought along a fast food burger and soda to the studio.

From The Daily Beast

Big Kahuna Burger is a fictional chain of Hawaiian-themed fast food burger joints out in Los Angeles dreamed up by Tarantino.

From The Daily Beast

That Tarantino never opened a real-life Big Kahuna Burger out in L.A. seems like a huge missed opportunity.

From The Daily Beast

Agkistrodon bilineatus bilineatus, Burger and Robertson, Univ.

From Project Gutenberg

As in the wonderful old ballad of Burger, the Prussian horseman has taken the maiden “Germania” on his saddle.

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You forget the ballad of Burger, my dear Alexanderthe dead travel fast!

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The burger waited, my mask was thrown by, and my face appeared whitened with chalk, and made ghastly.

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They both ran: and the silly burger, eased of his fifty dollars, scampered first.

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Related Words

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Words That Use -burger

What does -burger mean?

The combining form –burger is used like a suffix indicating a kind of hamburger or other patty in a sandwich bun.

The form –burger comes from the end of the word hamburger, meaning “a sandwich consisting of a cooked patty of ground beef in a roll or bun.” The word hamburger itself comes from a shortening of a dish named Hamburger steak, from the German city of Hamburg.

Examples of -burger

An example of a word you may have encountered that features –burger is veggieburger, or vegeburger, “a flat cake of chopped seasoned vegetables that is grilled or fired and often served in a bread roll.”

The veggie– part of veggieburger is short for “vegetable,” and the –burger part of the word means “burger.” Veggieburger literally means “vegetable burger.”

What are some words that use the combining form –burger?

• baconburger
• gardenburger
• nothingburger
• soyburger
• turkeyburger

What are some other forms that –burger may be commonly confused with?

• -burg
• -burgh

Break it down!

Given the meaning of the form –burger, what kind of dish is a baconburger?