Nuncheon

Quick meaning: Nuncheon is a noun meaning (now dialectal, archaic) A drink or light snack taken in the afternoon; a refreshment between meals.

Meaning

(now dialectal, archaic) A drink or light snack taken in the afternoon; a refreshment between meals.

Example Sentences

“Your Grace, Madame Lanier wishes you to have nuncheon with her.”

She gave him a hunk of nuncheon and a bundle of her novelettes, and he stole up to an empty garret and squatted on the bare boards.

"Yes---I left London this morning at eight o'clock, and the only ten minutes I have spent out of my chaise since that time, procured me a noonchine at Marlborough."

Lurgashall, on the road to Northchapel, is a pleasant village, with a green, and a church unique among Sussex churches by virtue of a curious wooden gallery or cloister, said to have been built as a shelter for parishioners from a distance, who would eat their nuncheon there.

Word Forms

• nuncheons
• nunchion

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nunchion, noonshine, noonchine, undern, luncheon, refreshment.

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