groceria

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See also: grocería

English

Etymology

Borrowed from U.S. Spanish grocería, from English grocery.[1]

Noun

groceria (plural grocerias)

  1. (US) A Hispanic grocery store.
    • 1970, Paul Spike, “The Conference Man”, in Bad News‎, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, published 1971, page 90:
      She walked toward Avenue C. The black tar with a hideous spectre and the dim grocerías tucked into the walls.
    • 1983, Timothy Cohrs, Tendencies‎, New York: St. Martin/Marek, page 210:
      The action on the block had moved from the individual stoops to the bit of sidewalk in front of a groceria about three-quarters of the way down toward First Avenue.
    • 1990, Robert Chibka, chapter 6, in A Slight Lapse‎, New York: Norton, page 182:
      ‘ […] it’s mostly Spanish up there now I think, and it’s probably got cigar stores and grocerías and Spanish graffiti, which looks the same as English graffiti, since you can’t read any of it anyway.’
    • 2001 June 24, Vivian Gornick, “My Neighborhood, Its Fall and Rise”, in New York Times:
      On 180th Street, worse: empty lots everywhere interspersed with random sections of stores: a groceria, a drugstore, a church; a stretch of emptiness and discard […]

References

  1. ^ Alberto Barugel, Speaking Spanish in the U.S.A., Hauppauge, NY: Barron’s Educational Series, 2005, p. 120.
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