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andersmeat

andersmeat noun: a light snack consumed in the afternoon.

Noun

andersmeat

  1. (England, obsolete, regional) A light snack consumed in the afternoon.
  2. (England, obsolete, regional) A lunch.
    • This is my whack of bread and cheese for andersmeat.1905, Joseph Wright (editor), The English Dialect Dictionary, page 437

Origin of andersmeat

Apparently from a variant of undern + -s- + meat, but perhaps via alteration of Old English undernmete (“breakfast”), unattested in this sense. Compare Middle English orendron mete.

Questions about andersmeat

What does andersmeat mean?
Andersmeat means a light snack consumed in the afternoon.
What part of speech is andersmeat?
Andersmeat is a noun.

Words near andersmeat in the dictionary

  1. Andersen-Tawil syndrome
  2. Andersenian
  3. Andersens
  4. Andersmance
  5. Andersmancer
  6. andersmeat
  7. Anderson
  8. Anderson County
  9. Anderson localization
  10. Anderson localizations
  11. Anderson shelter

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