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Definition of Nuncheon
1. Noun. (context: now dialectal archaic) A drink or light snack taken in the afternoon; a refreshment between meals. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nuncheon
1. a light meal [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nuncheon
Literary usage of Nuncheon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Student's Pastime: Being a Select Series of Articles Reprinted from "Notes by Walter William Skeat (1896)
"Thus nuncheon is merely noon-skink, with the usual palatalisation of the k to c/s
... When nuncheon lost all meaning, popular etymology, always at work to ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
"N. and Q. 1, x. 120. See Moor.—Halliwell. But see nuncheon. ... The word nuncheon
is used in Hampshire for the meal between breakfast and dinner. ..."
3. A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases by Barzillai Lowsley, Job Lowsley (1888)
"nuncheon [nun-shun], sb. luncheon. *Ak. Miss Austen (from Hants) uses it. ...
The word nuncheon is used in Hampshire for the meal between breakfast and ..."
4. Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"Pastorale), as if, like the words noon-scape and nooning, it meant a retreat from
the noontide heat, is no doubt a conniption of nuncheon, a lump of food, ..."
5. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"The statement that nuncheon was turned into the modern luncheon is needless, and
unsupported. The words are quite distinct, as is rightly stated, ..."
6. Words, Facts, and Phrases: A Dictionary of Curious, Quaint, & Out-of-the-way by Eliezer Edwards (1882)
"'Instead of "luncheon," or "lunch," our country people in Hampshire, as in many
other parts, always use the form •nuncheon or ..."
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