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That shouldn't call for any prize-winnin' graduate from a cookin' college, should it But say, the specimens that go in for general housework in this burg are a sad lot.

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  1. noun Informal A city or town: "There are no more opportunities for you in this burg” (Damon Runyon).
  2. noun A fortified or walled town in early or medieval Europe.

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  • Morelli and I were both born and raised in a blue-collar chunk of Trenton called the burg. —  One For The Money
  • It had been big news in the burg, and details of the shooting had been splashed across the front page of the Trenton Times. —  One For The Money
  • Housewives in the burg were always prepared for disaster, stockpiling toilet paper and cans of creamed corn in case the blizzard of aughty-aught should ever repeat itself. —  One For The Money
  • In 1945, when a prisoner of war, I was told by General Geyr von Schweppen-burg, the former military attaché in London, that Hitler was convinced that an invasion of Poland would not lead to war with the Western powers. —  Panzer Battles
  • We also paid attention to the left flank at Sieg-burg, for we had every reason to expect a thrust here from the Remagen bridgehead. —  Panzer Battles
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Probably from -burg in place names such as HARRISBURG, from Middle English burgh, town, from Old English burg. Sense 2, ultimately from Germanic *burgs, hill fort; see bhergh-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. A North. English and Scots and old law form of borough, Middle English burg, etc., Anglo-Saxon burh. Cf. burgh.
 

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