See brunch in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"en:Meals"
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[
"breakfast",
"breakfast#English"
],
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"lunch",
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]
],
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"etymology_text": "Blend of breakfast + lunch. Attested from 1895 in British English and from 1930 in the United States.",
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},
{
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"To eat brunch."
],
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"(intransitive) To eat brunch."
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75
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"ref": "1943 February 13, “Lucy Quirk”, in Daily News, Los Angeles, Calif., →OCLC, page 15, column 6:",
"text": "At Ivar House, the same noon, chic Mrs. Sidney Johnson of Pasadena brunched her eastern guest, Katherine Cudlip, then waited patiently while she practically bought out the gift shop.",
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"ref": "1947 May 3, Toki Schalk Johnson [pseudonym; Gertrude Schalk], “[Toki Types: About People Here and There] The AKAs Invade Pittsburgh . . .”, in Pittsburgh Courier, national edition, volume XXXVIII, number 18, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Pittsburgh Courier Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 8, column 1:",
"text": "Deltas brunched them on Sunday at the YWCA . . . and in between there was the dance given by local AKAs, a semi-formal affair, on Saturday night . . . with a closed gathering at Loendi Club afterwards.",
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"ref": "1949 November 18, Of Thee I Sing [pseudonym], “Birds I Know”, in The Boston Daily Globe, volume CLVI, number 141, Boston, Mass.: Globe Newspaper Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36, column 4:",
"text": "Numerous kindly souls delightedly phoned me, “You’ll never guess what I’ve got for the first time in my life—evening grosbeaks.” And the best I could answer was, “For heaven’s sake, hang on to them!” But they finally caught up with me in flocks of from 35 to 200 or so. I gave them a huge breakfast at 7 a. m., repeated it at 9:30, and brunched them at 11. Then I shooed the whole crowd away.",
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"ref": "1979, American Squaredance, volume 34, Huron, Oh.: Burdick Enterprises, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, column 2:",
"text": "My hosts there were caller Ken and Judy Curtis, who met me, shuttled me, brunched me, equipped me, dined me, partied me, plunged me, slept me, and breakfasted me, royally. What more could one ask?",
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"ref": "1987, “The Strategist: With Friends Like These”, in Esquire, volume 107, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 63, column 3:",
"text": "“I visited him out in Petaluma, and I lunched and brunched him ferociously,” Kramer recalls.",
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"ref": "1989 July 11, Bea Pixa, “Bea Pixa’s San Francisco”, in San Francisco Examiner, 125th year, number 26, San Francisco, Calif., →ISSN, →OCLC, page B-2, columns 4–5:",
"text": "Athena Troxel, chairman of Monday’s Nordstrom fashion show at the Fairmont, a benefit for Project Open Hand, had a relatively low-key birthday this year — just a blitz of dining out with indulgent friends (Susan Andrews lunched her at Trader Vic’s; Debbie Bocci took her to Donatello; Lilly Preiner picked up the tab at PosTrio; Kjorina Peterson brunched her at Campton Place; and her mother organized a barbecue).",
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"To serve brunch to."
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"(transitive, rare) To serve brunch to."
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},
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},
{
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}
],
"word": "brunch"
}
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