luncher
nounEtymology From lunch + -er.
1
Someone who lunches; someone who eats lunch.
- The knowledge of envy was a pleasant feeling to the man of no account. It was intensified later in the day when a luncher at the Club said, spitefully, “Well, for a debilitated Ditcher, Yeere, you are going it.”1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 30:
- Late lunchers had the pick of the menu.2014, John Howard Reid, Merryll Manning: A Brush with Death, page 80:
2
One who treats another person to lunch.
- If the luncher, choose venue carefully, reconnoitre loos. If lunchee, be prompt, but not early.2008, Stephen Bayley, Roger Mavity, Life's a Pitch: How to Sell Yourself and Your Brilliant Ideas, page 213:
- Derived terms
- power luncher