groceria

English

Etymology

Borrowed from U.S. Spanish grocería, from English grocery.

Noun

groceria (plural grocerias)

1. (US) A Hispanic grocery store.
   • 1970, Paul Spike, “The Conference Man”, in Bad News‎^[2], 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^[3], 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^[4], 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 […]