bakery

Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪ.kə.ɹi/

The English word “bakery” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

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

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”).

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