brunchn.
/brʌn(t)ʃ/, U.S. /brəntʃ/ Originally Oxford University slang.
A meal, typically eaten late in the morning, which combines elements of breakfast and lunch.The earliest use of brunch is often inaccurately attributed to Guy Beringer in the article cited in quot. 18952 (cf. quot. 1896 at brunch v.). Beringer's article may have popularized the term.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > brunch or pre-lunch
pre-luncheon1873
brunch1895
bruncheon1912
1895 Independent 22 Aug. 2/1 Breakfast is ‘brekker’ in the Oxford tongue; when a man makes lunch his first meal of the day it becomes ‘brunch’: and a tea-dinner at the Union Club is a ‘smug’.
1895 G. Beringer in Hunter's Weekly 5 Nov. 20/2 Brunch, on the contrary, is cheerful, sociable, and inciting.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 19 Dec. 2/3 Perish Scrambling breakfast, formal lunch! Hardened night-birds fondly cherish All the subtle charms of ‘brunch’.
1930 San Mateo (Calif.) Times 24 Jan. 9/2 Some clever far-seeing personage has combined the meals into ‘brunch’.
1941 Villager (Greenwich Village, N.Y.) 10 Apr. 8/4 (advt.) Sunday strollers brunch $1 per person served from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
1967 Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. (Mag.) 8/2 Easter is the day when more fashion marches forth..to brunches and to egg hunts.
2014 Carroll News (John Carroll Univ.) (Nexis) 2 Apr. (Arts & Life section) 1 For brunch, they have the classics, including pancakes, eggs and bacon.
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brunch bar n. chiefly U.S. (a) a cafe where brunch is served, esp. at a counter; cf. breakfast bar (b) at breakfast n. Additions; (b) a raised counter in a domestic kitchen at which people can sit; = breakfast bar (a) at breakfast n. Additions.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > dining-room
parlourc1384
cenaclea1400
triclinec1440
dining room?1576
dining hall1598
eating-room1613
triclinium1646
supper rooma1661
coffee-room1712
breakfast-room1732
salle-à-manger1762
mess-room1774
refreshment room1785
breakfast-parlour1802
noon-hall1828
dinner room1853
Speisesaal1871
diner1907
dinette1920
breakfast-nook1931
brunch bar1940
1940 Time 25 Nov. 2/1 Even those who must eat and run can now enjoy the pleasures of Parker House food, for Managing Director Glenwood John Sherrard..provided a Brunch Bar..where speedy counter service is a feature.
1946 Mansfield (Ohio) News Jrnl. 17 Nov. 19/4 Planning the architectural features is the next step. This includes..where the breakfast nook will be, or the brunch bar, or dining area.
1989 Guardian (Nexis) 27 Oct. The great men's successors..let the White Hart coaching inn..become an American theme pub, brunch bar and youth pit.
2012 A. Clements Meet me under Mistletoe xii. 156 Rachel..took a seat on a wooden stool next to the brunch bar in the kitchen.
brunch coat n. chiefly U.S. a woman's housecoat.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > types of > for specific purpose > for wear at home
housecoat1830
rest gown1893
brunch coat1933
brunchy1942
1933 San Antonio (Texas) Light 8 June This ‘brunch coat’ pajama set..is as sleek and fitted as any street suit.
1942 N.Y. Times 24 May 31 (advt.) A brunch coat that's indispensable in the Summertime.
2003 New Yorker 2 June 73/1 Fania was a Jewish matriarch who lived on West End Avenue and never got out of her brunch coat.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
brunchv.
/brʌn(t)ʃ/, U.S. /brəntʃ/ Originally British slang.
intransitive. To eat brunch.Regarding the article by Guy Beringer referred to in quot. 1896, see note at brunch n.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating meals > eat meal [verb (intransitive)] > eat brunch
brunch1896
1896 Punch 1 Aug. 58/2 To be fashionable nowadays we must ‘brunch’. Truly an excellent portmanteau word, introduced, by the way, last year, by Mr. Guy Beringer, in the now defunct Hunter's Weekly, and indicating a combined breakfast and lunch.
1938 Time 21 Nov. 12/1 He likes to sleep until 11 a.m., then brunches, sees visitors, plays squash.
1966 D. Skirrow It won't get you Anywhere l. 249 We sat in the window and brunched.
1985 A. Blond Book Bk. i. 14 I brunched with him over a smoked salmon omelette.
2006 ‘A. Ant’ Stand & Deliver x. 269 The LA life of dog-walking in the surf and power-breakfasting with producers, brunching with pals and dining with lovers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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