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dinnery

dinnery adjective: of or relating to dinner; resembling dinner.

Adjective

dinnery (comparative more dinnery, superlative most dinnery)

  1. (informal) Of or relating to dinner; resembling dinner.
    • “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...1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, chapter 44, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published...
    • It was evening, the hour when warm dinnery smells pervaded the walls and whiffs of other people’s trays came a-visiting.c. 1943, Emily Carr, “Red Roses”, in Ann-Lee Switzer, editor, This and That: The Lost Stories of Emily Carr, TouchWood Editions, published 2011

Forms of dinnery

comparativemore dinnery
superlativemost dinnery

Origin of dinnery

From dinner + -y.

Questions about dinnery

What does dinnery mean?
Dinnery means of or relating to dinner; resembling dinner.
What part of speech is dinnery?
Dinnery is an adjective.

Words near dinnery in the dictionary

  1. dinnertinis
  2. dinnerwards
  3. dinnerware
  4. dinnerwares
  5. dinnerwear
  6. dinnery
  7. dinnet
  8. Dinnie
  9. Dinniman
  10. dinning
  11. dinning room

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