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veggie nutburger

veggie nutburger

5.5
A meat-free burger made from ground nuts and vegetables
  • noun
  • /ˈvɛdʒi ˈnʌtbɜrɡər/
  • Informal
translation icon : hamburguesa de nueces
  • She ordered a veggie nutburger because she wanted a healthy, filling meal.

Examples

  • The café offers a delicious veggie nutburger served with sweet potato fries.

  • After becoming vegetarian, he started making his own veggie nutburgers at home.

  • I ordered a veggie nutburger for lunch.

  • The restaurant serves delicious veggie nutburgers.

  • After becoming vegetarian, he started making his own veggie nutburgers at home.

  • She ordered a veggie nutburger because she wanted a healthy, filling meal.

  • The café offers a delicious veggie nutburger served with sweet potato fries.

Synonyms

veggie burger
vsveggie nutburger
8 2.5

A sandwich with a cooked patty made from vegetables or plant ingredients instead of meat

uses nuts as the primary patty ingredient rather than other plants

How Plant-Based

veggie nutburger
  • Informal
5.5

Surface Forms

veggie nutburger singular
veggie nutburgers plural

Morphology

veggie + nutburger

The meaning is directly compositional: 'veggie' signals a vegetarian/vegetable-based item and 'nutburger' can be parsed as 'nut' + 'burger' (a burger made from nuts), so a learner who knows the constituents can infer a vegetarian burger with nuts. Even if 'nutburger' is nonstandard, the compound follows regular English word-formation and is cross-linguistically transparent, making the overall expression immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.

Etymology

Veggie nutburger comes from the simple image of a 'burger' made from veggie ingredients with a patty made of chopped nuts, like a sandwich you can imagine eating instead of meat. So it means 'a vegetarian burger made mainly from nuts'.