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Vinony

bakery

noun

  1. establishment that produces and sells flour-based food baked in an oven
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Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪ.kə.ɹi/ / /ˈbeɪk.ɹi/

noun

Etymology: From bake + -ery (“place of”). Replaced earlier bakehouse. Originally "place for making bread"; as "shop where baked goods are sold", it was believed by British travelers by 1832 to be an American-invented term. Sense 4 is by analogy with cake (“buttocks”).

  1. A place in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold.
  2. The trade of a baker.
  3. Baked goods.

    “Fresh bakery!”

    “1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Bridget & Jacob were coming home from the hospital bout 11:30. Kathy & I made a little "brunch" of bakery & coffee.”

  4. A large pair of buttocks.

    “He's got a whole damn bakery back there!”