单词 | undermeal |
释义 | † undermealn. Obsolete. 1. a. The time of undern; in later use esp. the early part of the afternoon. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > morning > [noun] morn-tideeOE mornOE undermealOE morrowlOE yeender12.. morningc1275 morrow-tidec1300 morn-whilea1325 morningc1400 forenoon1511 morning-tide1530 matins1604 ante-noon1686 mane1727 a.m.1757 ack emma1909 OE Beowulf 1428 Gesawon..on næshleoðum nicras licgean, ða on undernmæl oft bewitigað sorhfulne sið. c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints xxx. 319 Þa an undern-mæl spræcon hi betwux him þær-inne. c1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale 875 Ther walketh now the lymytour hym self In vndermeles and in morwenynges. c1400 Trevisa's Higden V. 373 Rosamunda in an undermele tyde [L. meridiano tempore] bonde..faste þe kynges swerd þat was on slepe. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 511/1 Vndermele, postmeridies, postmesimbria. b. An afternoon nap; a siesta. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > an instance or period of > short or light > siesta undermeal1426 meridiana1450 meridiation1623 meridionala1631 siesta1655 zest1706 1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 9044 To leyn hym sofftely On Fether beddys, mad ful wel, For to slepe hys vndermel. 1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. Av The blacke pot; which makes our Poets vndermeale Muses so mutinous, as euerie stanzo they pen after dinner, is full poynted with a stabbe. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe Ep. Ded. sig. A2v Hee hath dinde at a tauerne, and slept his vnder-meale at a bawdy house. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 11 The forty yeares vndermeale of the seauen sleepers. 2. An afternoon meal. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > afternoon meal undermealc1440 undern1691 goûter1792 five-o'clock tea1869 merienda1880 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 511/1 Vndermele,..merarium. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 285/2 Under mele, ressigner. 1586 Withals' Dict. (1599) 57/2 Another greater supper or vndermeale was made redie for them. 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre iv. ii. 54 in Wks. II I thinke I am furnish'd for Catherne peares, for one vnder-meale. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.OE |
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