Hershey

English

Etymology

From Hercé in Normandy.[1] The villages are named after The Hershey Company, which is named after its founder, Milton S. Hershey.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈhɝʃi/

Proper noun

Hershey

  1. A surname.
  2. A village in Lincoln County, Nebraska, United States, named for J. H. Hershey, a pioneer settler.
  3. Any of the company towns named for and operated by the Hershey Company.
    1. A census-designated place in Pennsylvania, United States.
    2. An unincorporated community in California, United States.
    3. A village in Mayabeque, Cuba, also known as Camilo Cienfuegos.

Noun

Hershey (plural Hersheys)

  1. A confection produced by The Hershey Company.
    • 1963, Elliott Chaze, “Millionaires Don’t Go Out in the Yard”, in Two Roofs and a Snake on the Door, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Collier-Macmillan Limited, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10:
      But she knows her friends and if she likes you she will go for walks with you and even eat a Hershey in front of the drugstore if you buy her one.
    • 1982, M[ary] F[rances] K[ennedy] Fisher, “Young Hunger”, in As They Were, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 35:
      Then I arranged all my own and my roommate’s pillows in a voluptuous pile, placed so that I could see whether a silent housemotherly foot stood outside the swaying monk’s-cloth curtain that served as a door (to cut down our libidinous chitchat, the school board believed), and I put my hoard of Hersheys discreetly under a fold of the bedspread.
    • 1988, Rebecca Busselle, “No Way Out”, in Bathing Ugly (A Richard Jackson Book), New York, N.Y.: Orchard Books, →ISBN, page 51:
      Like a cash register, the word candy bar rang up a Hershey in my mind. […] I saw the Hershey scored in ten squares and imagined breaking one off, pushing it to the roof of my mouth to ooze down my throat. I had been five whole days without candy.
    • 1989, Steve Abbott, “The Monastery”, in Holy Terror, Freedom, Calif.: The Crossing Press, →ISBN, section 4, page 46:
      I remembered a Hershey in my shirt pocket. I broke off a piece and ate it.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ https://surnames.behindthename.com/name/hershey
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