restrurnt

restrurnt pronunciation

/RES-trunt/

Meaning

Restrurnt is restaurant with the middle syllables mashed together the way rural Southern mouths often do. Same place that serves meat-and-three or burgers, just said shorter. You will hear restrunt, resternt, and rest'runt too. Folks write it this way when they want the sound on the page.

How folks use it

• “Let's eat at that little restrurnt by the highway.”
• “They opened a new restrurnt where the feed store used to be.”

Origin and etymology

Not a separate word. It is a phonetic spelling of how many Southern and Appalachian speakers say restaurant in easy talk, dropping or blending the middle bits. Related country reductions show up in words like rurnt for ruined.

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