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Brit's midday snack
Answer for the clue "Brit's midday snack ", 8 letters:
nuncheon
Word definitions for nuncheon in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context now dialectal archaic English) A drink or light snack taken in the afternoon; a refreshment between meals.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "slight refreshment," originally taken in the afternoon, from none "noon" (see noon ) + shench "draught, cup," from Old English scenc , related to scencan "to pour out, to give to drink," cognate with Old Frisian skenka "to give to drink, German, ...
Usage examples of nuncheon.
The Squire, peckish after his ride, had just disposed of a substantial nuncheon, and Tom, having talked himself out of arguments, had been preserving for the past ten minutes a silence pregnant with resentment.
She would save the Lemon Street dressmakers, corsetieres and readymade establishments for after nuncheon when, hopefully, she would have bored the steward sufficiently enough to afford herself some privacy while he tended to his business.
By the time the letter reached Undershaw she was much more anxious than she cared to betray to Nurse, who had been prophesying disaster ever since the discovery that Aubrey had not come home to share a nuncheon with his sister.
For the received birthday presents (no doubt as a relic of the customs of small ancient families) must be delivered in person, properly on the eve of the Day, and at latest before nuncheon on the Day.