deli
pronunciation
How to pronounce deli in British English:
UK [ˈdeli]
How to pronounce deli in American English:
US [ˈdɛli]
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- Noun:
- a shop selling delicatessen (as salads or cooked meats)
Word Origin
- deli (n.)
- 1954, short for delicatessen.
Example
- 1. Bpa is also present in products packaged in plastic and in one sample from the deli counter .
- 2. When at the deli , ask for low-sodium varieties and ask for a sample to determine what appeals to your taste .
- 3. An employee in a deli on eighth avenue said that he usually gave heavy a few pieces of bread at lunchtime .
- 4. Flavour for the cooking pot came from crystals of rock salt sourced from the nearby mountain slopes the sort of stuff people paid a fortune for in my neighbourhood deli back home .
- 5. The man in the local deli told my husband how sorry he was and added that his wife had lost a child in the same way ; the receptionist at my gp 's surgery said it had happened to her .