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▪ I. dinner, n.|ˈdɪnə(r)|
Forms: 3–6 diner, dyner, 4–5 dinere, dener, 4–7 dynere, 5 dynnere, dyneer, 6 denere, dynar, dynnor, dynner (Sc. dennar, denner), 6– dinner.
[ME. diner, a. F. dîner (11th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), subst. use of pres. inf. dîner to dine.]
1. a. The chief meal of the day, eaten originally, and still by the majority of people, about the middle of the day (cf. Ger. Mittagsessen), but now, by the professional and fashionable classes, usually in the evening; particularly, a formally arranged meal of various courses; a repast given publicly in honour of some one, or to celebrate some event.
1297R. Glouc. (1724) 558 Þulke to diners deluol were, alas! a1300Cursor M. 3508 His fader..Oft he fed wit gode dinere. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. v. 38 Thei wolde don for a dyner..More þan for oure lordes loue. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) V. 459 Syttenge with Oswaldus the Kynge at dyner [= in mensa]. a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 26 Whos wiff that obeiethe worst, lete her husbonde paie for the dener. 1553R. Ascham in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 14 Dynnor and supper he had me comonlie with him. 1557W. Towrson in Hakluyt Voy. (1589) 116, I had the Captaine of the towne to dinner. 1563Winȝet Four Scoir Thre Quest. xviii. Wks. 1888 I. 84 Quhy mak ȝe ȝour communioun afoir dennar, sen our Saluiour institutet His haly sacrament efter suppare? 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 458 As he sate in the house of Simon at Dyner. 1606L. Bryskett Civ. Life 97 After dinner a man should sit a while, and after supper walk a mile. 1620Venner Via Recta viii. 173 Our vsuall time for dinner..is about eleuen of the clocke. 1712Hearne Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) III. 372 At eleven Clock this Day, I being then at Dinner in Edmund Hall Buttery. 1718Lady M. W. Montagu, Let. to C'tess. Mar 10 Mar., She gave me a dinner of fifty dishes of meat. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Wks. (Bohn) II. 50 In an aristocratical country like England, not the Trial by Jury, but the dinner, is the capital institution.
†b. to seek his dinner with duke Humphrey: see dine v. 1 b.
c. In colloq. phr. to have had more (..) than (another) has had hot dinners, and varr.: used jocularly to emphasize the subject's wide experience of a particular activity or phenomenon.
1961H. S. Turner Something Extraordinary iv. 89 The general theory is that they are tarts; and one of them—of whom he says ‘she's been done more times than I've had hot dinners’—quite possibly is. 1965J. Osborne Inadmissible Evidence i. 31 She looks as though she could do with a bit. She's got the galloping cutes all right. Joy. She's had more joy sticks than hot dinners. 1976Daily Mirror 17 Mar. 23/3 Mr. Essex has been subjected to more ‘East End wonderboy’ rubbishings than he has had hot dinners.
2. attrib. and Comb., as dinner-bag, dinner-basket, dinner-book, dinner-club, dinner-company, dinner-course, dinner-doctrine, dinner-dress, dinner-furniture, dinner-giver, dinner-gong, dinner-gown, dinner-guest, dinner-meal, dinner-money, dinner-napkin, dinner-plate, dinner-pot, dinner-roll, dinner-room, dinner-service, dinner-tea, dinner-ware, dinner-wine; dinner-giving, dinner-like adjs.; dinner-bucket U.S. = dinner-pail; dinner-call U.S., a formal call upon one's host or hostess after a dinner party; dinner-card, (a) a card bearing an invitation to dinner (Obs.); (b) a card bearing a name and indicating a person's place at a dinner-table; dinner-coat, a dinner jacket; hence dinner-coated adj.; dinner-dance, a dinner followed by dancing; hence dinner-dancing vbl. n.; dinner-horn U.S., a horn used to announce dinner on a farm, etc.; dinner-hour, the hour at which dinner is taken, the hour or time occupied by dinner; dinner jacket, a dress-coat without tails worn in the evening as a less formal alternative to the swallow-tailed coat; hence dinner-jacketed adj.; dinner lady, a woman who works part-time in a school, supervising children during the midday meal and in the playground; dinner-pail U.S., a pail in which a workman carries his dinner with him; hence in slang phr. to hand, pass, or turn in one's dinner-pail, to die; dinner-pair, the pairing of two members of parliament of opposite parties during the dinner-hour: see pair; dinner-party, a party of guests invited to dinner; the social gathering which they compose; dinner-set, a set of plates and other ware of the same pattern for the dinner table; dinner speech U.S., an after-dinner speech; so dinner-speaking vbl. n.; dinner-table, the table at which dinner is eaten, and round which a party of guests sit; dinner theatre U.S., a theatre at which the price of a ticket includes a meal followed by the play or show; dinner-wagon, a tray with shelves beneath, supported by four legs, usually on castors, so as to be easily moved, for the service of a dining-room.
1885T. Hardy Mayor Casterbr. i, His hoe on his shoulder, and his *dinner-bag suspended from it.
1821–8D. Wordsworth Tour on Continent in Jrnls. (1941) II. 318 The mother..hastening to her *dinner-basket, chearfully presented me with her whole stock. 1939F. Thompson Lark Rise i. 15 The leazer's water-can and dinner-basket.
1854W. Waterworth Orig. Anglicanism 134 This contradiction of belief and practice, of prayer-book and *dinner-book, has long been censured.
1901Scribner's Mag. XXIX. 404/2 Billy put on his coat, took his *dinner-bucket.
1895J. L. Williams Princeton Stories 263 It's two years now, and it's not good form to let a *dinner call go more than two years in Princeton.
1754Connoisseur 2 May 80, I received..a *dinner-card from a friend, with an intimation that I should meet some very agreeable ladies. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. II. iii. xvii. 152 Mrs. Veneering..sends them every one a dinner-card. 1881C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork ii. 125 Designs for dinner cards for Thanksgiving or Christmas. 1905E. Wharton House of Mirth i. iv. 60 There would be notes and dinner-cards to write. 1907M. C. Harris Tents of Wickedness i. iii. 35 His dinner-card lay on the side of the cloth next her, and she..glanced at it. ‘Mr. Paul Fairfax’—so that was his name.
1836–48B. D. Walsh Aristoph., Acharnians ii. vi, Involved by *dinner-clubs and debts.
1922F. Scott Fitzgerald Let. 31 Jan. (1964) 153 He looks like a sawed-off young tough in his first *dinner-coat.
1929Yeats Let. 2 Mar. (1954) vi. 758 To-night we dine with Ezra—the first *dinner-coated meal since I got here.
1816Jane Austen Emma II. vii. 119 Their love of society..prepared every body for their keeping *dinner-company.
1901Lady's Realm X. 613/1 From one *dinner-dance to the next. 1910Westm. Gaz. 15 Apr. 5/2 A dinner-dance—quite a small affair.
c1430Lydg. in Turner Dom. Archit. III. 81 The *dynere coursis eke at euery feste.
1965Observer Suppl. 18 Apr. 46/1 *Dinner-dancing after 11.30.
1649Milton Eikon. xix. Wks. (1847) 320/1 Far holier and wiser men than parasitic preachers; who, without their *dinner-doctrine, know that neither king, law, civil oaths, or religion, was ever established without the parliament.
1815Belle Assemblée July 274/1 Round dress..made to answer the double purpose of a morning or *dinner-dress. 1897M. Corelli Ziska xiii. 262 The Princess herself, attired in a dinner-dress made with quite a modern Parisian elegance. 1956J. D. Carr P. Butler for Defence vi. 62 Helen, in her dark-blue dinner-dress, stood in the doorway.
1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. ii, An innocent piece of *dinner-furniture that went upon easy castors.
1864Burton Scot Abr. I. iii. 109 The one keeps a *dinner-giving house, the other does not.
1838Knickerbocker XII. 227 How startling is the sound of the *dinner-gong! 1922D. H. Lawrence Aaron's Rod xiv. 200 He did not notice the dinner-gong, and only the arrival of the chamber-maid..sent him down to the restaurant.
1891Truth 10 Dec. 1240/2 Ecstasies of admiration over a superb *dinner-gown.
1811L. M. Hawkins Countess I. xiv. 240 Mr. Sydenham, his son, and his charge, were to be *dinner-guests. 1965F. Sargeson Memoirs of Peon vii. 207 It was upon dinner-guest occasions that my gastropodous writhings were dispensed with.
1835C. Gilman in Southern Rose 5 Sept. 2/1 The business was scarely settled, when the *dinner-horn sounded. 1849Congress. Globe 10 Jan. App. 80/2 The dinner horn will be heard across broad fields, and will be answered by the keen appetites attendant upon honest labor. 1867‘T. Lackland’ Homespun iii. 290 From that time until the dinner-horn sounds, no tented field..ever furnished a busier..spectacle.
1800Spirit Publ. Journals (1801) IV. 160 You step to a friend's house on business, near his *dinner-hour. 1892Pall Mall G. 5 Apr. 3/2 That period of the evening—from seven to ten—which in parliamentary phrase is called the ‘dinner hour’.
1891M. E. Braddon Gerard III. vii. 208 Jermyn took up the loose pages, folded them carefully, put them in an inner pocket of his *dinner jacket. 1894To-day 17 Mar. 182/1, I see that the so-called ‘dinner-jacket’ is getting to be the regular wear at the theatres. 1924Galsworthy White Monkey i. iv, Full fig, or dinner jacket? 1968Listener 6 June 748/1 The struggle to rescue opera from the dinner-jacket brigade and to present it to ordinary people at reasonable prices.
1911C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling i. 5 Any other *dinner-jacketed, white-shirted, black-tied visitor in the room. 1936‘M. Innes’ Death at President's Lodging (1937) iv. 63 Round the high-table there stood, gowned and for the most part dinner-jacketed, the Fellows.
1967Economist 23 Sept. 1072/3 ‘*Dinner lady’ is a popular part-time job for many women, especially where small children are concerned—and where extra supervision is most needed. 1983Daily Tel. 30 Nov. 8/1 Dinner ladies helping with playground supervision have been jostled and abused while trying to tackle unruly pupils. 1984Listener 22 Mar. 4/2 He hopes that the majority of the dinner ladies will, in the end, accept.
1835Dickens Sk. Boz (1836) 2nd Ser. 14 Investing part of the day's *dinner-money in the purchase of the stale tarts. 1942A. P. Jephcott Girls Growing Up iii. 47 Ordinary timetable lessons are supplemented by..dinner money collections [etc.].
1861Dickens Gt. Expect. xxii, A *dinner-napkin will not go into a tumbler.
1856M. J. Holmes Homestead vi. i, The little ‘tin bucket’..serves the treble purpose of *dinnerpail, washbowl, and drinking cup. 1900Nation LXXI. 323/2 He comes something short of ex-President Harrison's ability to see a ‘spiritual significance’ in the full dinner-pail. 1904N.Y. Even. Post 19 Feb. 3 Thousands of men with their dinnerpails on their way to work. 1905A. M. Binstead Mop Fair iv. 65 Evelyn Godolphin Mountprospect..passed in his dinner pail. 1922Wodehouse Clicking of Cuthbert i. 14 A sliced ball, whizzing in at the open window, had come within an ace of incapacitating Raymond Parsloe Devine... Two inches, indeed, to the right and Raymond must inevitably have handed in his dinner-pail. 1964― Frozen Assets iii. 49 My godfather..recently turned in his dinner pail and went to reside with the morning stars.
1894Westm. Gaz. 24 Apr. 1/3 He frequently secures a *dinner-pair, and manages to get away from the House..at 6.30.
1815Jane Austen Emma xvi, Out of humour at not being able to come..for forty-eight hours without falling in with a *dinner-party.
1775P. V. Fithian Jrnl. (1934) II. 68 Tea..is boild in a common *Dinner-Pot, of ten or fifteen gallons. 1871Mrs. Stowe Old Town Fireside Stories v. 168 A gret iron pot as big as your granny's dinner-pot with an iron bale to it.
1833Chambers's Jrnl. II. 32/2 You find Mrs B...flying about the dining-room,..marshalling glasses and *dinner rolls. 1962Which? May 144/1 We made plain dinner rolls, using ½ pint of water to 1 lb flour—a heavy dough.
1845Ainsworth's Mag. VIII. 117 The furniture of the table..reminds one of..a Russian *dinner-service. 1968Guardian 9 July 7/5 Their bargain dinner service..costs {pstlg}4 5s.
1823in Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) I. 344 The decanters, the glasses, ‘the *dinner-set’ of crockery-ware.
1910Westm. Gaz. 11 Apr. 8/3 Mr. W. W. Jacobs..said..*Dinner-speaking was a gift which was never put into his stocking.
1852Harper's Mag. VI. 89* That celebrated public *dinner-speech. 1890Ibid. Apr. 799/2 The modern dinner speech is a happy blending of sparkling banter, [etc.].
1813Examiner 10 May 299/2 A..greater number of persons than assemble at a *dinner or a tea-table.
1852Mrs. Carlyle Lett. II. 162, I am to have a *dinner-tea with them next Wednesday.
1960Cue 2 July 2 (Advt.), Theatre in-the-round restaurant. Meadowbrook *Dinner Theatre. B'way Musical. Dinner. Dancing. 1973Times 3 July (Houston Suppl.) p. vi/6 The city's only professional theatre, besides the dinner theatres (do you have them over there yet? You get an extra-bland buffet dinner and a dreary second-rate Broadway comedy for one price) is the Alley. 1984New Yorker 18 June 44/1 She is very beautiful. She is always playing countesses at the local dinner theatre.
1862Illustr. Catal. Internat. Exhib. XI. No. 5719, A wainscot sideboard; *dinner wagon, to correspond. 1895Catal., Dinner wagons, three-shelf, plain turned pillars, on castors, mahogany, oak or walnut.
1895Montgomery Ward Catal. 527/1 Pure white *dinner ware..with gold decoration. 1905Daily Chron. 2 May 7/1 The kitchen was strewn with smashed dinner-ware. 1961Times 6 June 5/6 The dinner-ware is based on melamine crystal developed by Cyanamid.
1905Wine List of T. W. Stapleton & Co. July, Sherry... Good *Dinner Wine 36/-. 1920G. Saintsbury Notes on Cellar-Bk. v. 78 Good Carbonnieux or Olivier..are admirable dinner wines.
▸ dinner suit n. a suit intended to be worn at a dinner or other formal occasion, esp. one consisting of a dinner jacket and trousers, often worn with a bow tie.
1841C. I. Johnstone Violet Hamilton in Edinb. Tales (1846) II. 388/2 He was carefully dressed in his *dinner suit. 1938H. Spring My Son, my Son xx. 350 If you agree to this, would you be so kind as to have my dinner-suit sent on when I give you the address, as Pogson says they dress for dinner. 2004Daily Tel. 10 Aug. 17/1 He used to wear a dinner suit with a wing collar and pince-nez glasses on the first night.
▪ II. dinner, v.|ˈdɪnə(r)|
[f. dinner n.]
1. intr. To dine, have dinner: also dinner it.
1748[see dinnering below]. 1786Burns Lines on Interv. w. Ld. Daer i, I dinner'd wi' a Lord. 1818Moore Fudge Fam. Paris viii. 20 Where in temples antique you may breakfast or dinner it.
2. trans. To entertain at dinner; to provide dinner for.
1822Blackw. Mag. XI. 481 Hogg would have been dinnered to his death. 1826Examiner 337/1 Before that worthy governor..left the Cape, he was twice dinnered. 1859Chadwick De Foe vi. 310 Harley dinnered himself into the Speaker's chair. 1885Grace Stebbing Aggravating Sch.-girl xxxiv, I'll dinner them and I'll supper them, but if they want rooms..they may go elsewhere.
Hence ˈdinnering vbl. n.
1748Richardson Clarissa Wks. 1883 V. 118 To think how I had drawn myself in by my summer-house dinnering. 1837Q. Rev. 142 Few people are there so bored, as at the grand dinnerings of the London season. 1867Carlyle Remin. II. 143 Liverpool, with its dinnerings..was not his element. |