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Still tucking into other special snack
Answer for the clue "Still tucking into other special snack ", 9 letters:
elevenses
Alternative clues for the word elevenses
- Snack? Still tucking into other source of sustenance
- Reg leaving new version of Greensleeves for a cup of tea mid-morning?
- Tea and biscuits, besides a bit of scripture, fed by English clergyman
- Excitedly sees about bit of lunch, just...after this?
- Mid-morning refreshment, informally
- Midmorning tea with HobNobs
- Refreshment in reflective bishop's office including seven new loaves for starters
Word definitions for elevenses in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Sykes was dangling a small bough over its nose, possibly an olive branch, perhaps its elevenses . ▪ The horseman threw a couple of sacks over the backs of his horses and sat under the hedge to eat his elevenses .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context British English) A snack that is similar to afternoon tea, but eaten in the late morning.
Usage examples of elevenses.
They had known he was coming ever since the flag-lieutenant had brought a Baltic pilot aboard, together with orders for Captain Draper - the news, coming by way of the Captain's steward, had spread through the sloop in rather less than two minutes - and although many of the Ariels were landsmen or boys there were quite enough man-of-war's men aboard to tell them of Lucky Jack Aubrey's reputation as a fighting captain, while the three or four who had sailed with him magnified it extremely: he ate fire for breakfast, elevenses, dinner and supper.
As the time for elevenses rolled around he beached the dinghy on one of these and brewed up coffee under a taxodium all hung with moss.