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What Do You Call the Corner Store?
Bodega, deli, packie, offy, party store and more
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by Dan Nosowitz, July 07, 2016
- "convenience store" - a small store stocking a wide variety of essential items including food and snacks (certainly premade, sometimes made on-site), toiletries, probably some basic household supplies and tools, soft drinks, coffee, magazines and newspapers, and candy.
- "bodega" is a Spanish word deriving from the Latin "apotheca", or "apothecary". It has various meanings, none of which is "market", as is commonly stated. (The word for "market" is "mercado".) Instead it means something closer to "storeroom" or "cellar", a pretty accurate description. In Spain, it mostly refers to a "wine cellar".
- "delis", short for "delicatessen"
- "dépanneur", or "dep" for short, coming from the French "dépanner", meaning "to help one out of a jam"
- "party store", which is sort of an optimistic name
- "packie" is a mutation of "package store", coming from laws that require alcohol sold in these stores must be sealed and not drunk on premises
- "offy" comes from "off-license", and has the same exact reasoning as the Massachusetts "packie"
- "variety store"
- "sari-sari store" - Sari-sari is the Tagalog word for "variety"
- "milk bar" - having originally been sort of a twist on the American "malt shop"
- "dairies"
- "superette"
- "Arabe du coin", or "Arab of the corner"
- "7-Eleven"
- "konbini" - That term is an abbreviation of "konbiniensu sutoa", which is a sort of Japanization of the English phrase "convenience store"
- "conveni" - In Japan the convenience store is basically known as a "conveni".
- "mama shop" - comes from the word "mama" in the Tamil language of India, meaning something like "elder"
- "Oxxo" - being the largest, and it or the local chain will often be referred to by name.
- "tienda" - simply means "store" in Spanish
- "misceláneas" - meaning something close to "variety"
- "depanneur"
- "corner store"
- "corner shop"
- "mini-mart"
- "mini"
Erstellt: 2016-07