ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Dinnery

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Dinnery is an adjective meaning (informal) Of or relating to dinner; resembling dinner.

Meaning

(informal) Of or relating to dinner; resembling dinner.

Example Sentences

It was evening, the hour when warm dinnery smells pervaded the walls and whiffs of other people’s trays came a-visiting.
“For with an invalid so much depends on tranquillity. In the drawing-room, for instance, she might constantly be disturbed by callers; and the dining-room is so—so what shall I call it? so dinnery,—the smell of meals never seems to leave it; it would have been different if dear papa had allowed me to throw out that window—”

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dinsome, dineric, dink, dippy, dianoetical, evening-dressed.

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