brunch
verbEtymology Blend of breakfast + lunch. Attested from 1895 in British English and from 1930 in the United States.
1
To eat brunch.
brunch
noun/bɹʌnt͡ʃ/ · /bɹʌnʃ/
Etymology Blend of breakfast + lunch. Attested from 1895 in British English and from 1930 in the United States.
1
A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, often in a leisurely, festive, and/or social way, and often consisting of typical foods from both of those meals.
- I normally have brunch at the café next to work.
- Let's do brunch sometime at the salad bar!
2 more examples
- Feeling a bit peckish, Sandra made herself some brunch with the leftovers in her fridge.
- I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch.April 15 1993, Adam I. Lapidus, “The Front”, in Rich Moore, director, The Simpsons, season 4, episode 19, spoken by Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta):
- Derived terms
- brunchtime, brunch word, brunchy, prebrunch