Definition of Nuncheon

1. Noun. (context: now dialectal archaic) A drink or light snack taken in the afternoon; a refreshment between meals. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nuncheon

1. a light meal [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nuncheon

numse
numskull
numskulled
numskulls
nun
nun's murmur
nun buoy
nun moth
nunatak
nunataks
nunation
nunations
nunc pro tunc
nunchaku
nunchakus
nuncheon (current term)
nuncheons
nunchion
nunchions
nunchuck
nunchucks
nuncial
nunciate
nunciates
nunciature
nunciatures
nuncii
nuncio
nuncios
nuncius

Literary usage of Nuncheon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Student's Pastime: Being a Select Series of Articles Reprinted from "Notes by Walter William Skeat (1896)
"Thus nuncheon is merely noon-skink, with the usual palatalisation of the k to c/s ... When nuncheon lost all meaning, popular etymology, always at work to ..."

2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
"N. and Q. 1, x. 120. See Moor.—Halliwell. But see nuncheon. ... The word nuncheon is used in Hampshire for the meal between breakfast and dinner. ..."

3. A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases by Barzillai Lowsley, Job Lowsley (1888)
"nuncheon [nun-shun], sb. luncheon. *Ak. Miss Austen (from Hants) uses it. ... The word nuncheon is used in Hampshire for the meal between breakfast and ..."

4. Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"Pastorale), as if, like the words noon-scape and nooning, it meant a retreat from the noontide heat, is no doubt a conniption of nuncheon, a lump of food, ..."

5. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"The statement that nuncheon was turned into the modern luncheon is needless, and unsupported. The words are quite distinct, as is rightly stated, ..."

6. Words, Facts, and Phrases: A Dictionary of Curious, Quaint, & Out-of-the-way by Eliezer Edwards (1882)
"'Instead of "luncheon," or "lunch," our country people in Hampshire, as in many other parts, always use the form •nuncheon or ..."

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