dinneryadj.
/ˈdɪnəri/, U.S. /ˈdɪnəri/ Characteristic or redolent of dinner; (now) spec. characteristic of dinner as opposed to lunch or another more informal meal. Also (in quot. 1889): characterized by dinners or dinner parties.In quot. 1839 in a parody of the speech and political views of an ‘operative conservative’ (see operative adj. 3), used punningly in an elaborate rendition of extraordinary.
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1839 Leeds Times 6 July 5/4 Mutch good pudins was also Eeten it was a verry hextra Roar dinnery rendisvows of goode pattriots i kan Ashewr U.
1861 Illustr. Times 26 Oct. 269/3 A powerful and steamy odour of soups..in a full blown dinnery atmosphere.
1883 S. Coolidge Round Dozen 135 The same dinnery fragrance filled the air.
1889 J. R. Lowell Lett. (1894) II. 363 Philadelphia was very dinnery, of course, with lunches and Wister parties thrown in.
1989 Financial Times 28 Jan. (Weekend suppl.) p. xvii/8 ‘Dinner at its dinneriest’ conjures up images of creaking white shirtfronts and faces glowing palely in the candlelight.
2018 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 24 June 9 There's some proper big art and lovely lighting, so it manages to be playfully airy and lunchy as well as rather grand and dinnery.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).
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