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nuncheon

nuncheon noun: a drink or light snack taken in the afternoon; a refreshment between meals.

Noun

nuncheon (countable and uncountable, plural nuncheons)

  1. (archaic, dialectal) A drink or light snack taken in the afternoon; a refreshment between meals.
    • They used to break their fast, and nonchion [translating collation] between meals, and all summer-time had men that sold snowe up and down the streets, wherewith they refreshed their wines, of whom some were so daintie that all winter long they used to put snow into their wine, not deeming it cold...1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
    • "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."1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 151

nuncheon meaning in Urdu

nuncheon in Urdu

ہلکی غذا, تھوڑا سا کھانا

Examples of nuncheon in a sentence

  • 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.1901, George Douglas Brown, The House with the Green Shutters:
  • “Your Grace, Madame Lanier wishes you to have nuncheon with her.”1981, Mary A. Garratt, The Duchess of Asherwood, Dell, →ISBN, page 485:

Forms of nuncheon

pluralnuncheons
alternative formnonchion
alternative formnoonchine
alternative formnunchion

Origin of nuncheon

From Middle English nonshench, noneschench, nonechenche (“slight refreshment, usually taken in the afternoon”), from none (“noon”) + shench, schenche (“draught, cup”), equivalent to noon + shink (“to pour out, serve”). More at shink, skink.

Questions about nuncheon

What does nuncheon mean?
Nuncheon means a drink or light snack taken in the afternoon; a refreshment between meals.
What is nuncheon in Urdu?
Nuncheon in Urdu is ہلکی غذا, تھوڑا سا کھانا. See Nuncheon meaning in Urdu.
How do you use nuncheon in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is nuncheon?
Nuncheon is a noun.
What is the plural of nuncheon?
The plural of nuncheon is nuncheons.

Words near nuncheon in the dictionary

  1. nunc stans
  2. nuncatie
  3. nuncaties
  4. nunchaku
  5. nunchakus
  6. nuncheon
  7. nuncheons
  8. nunchi
  9. nunchion
  10. nunchions
  11. nunchuck

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