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minus-square✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·edit-213 hours ago There also was a contemporary nuncheon “light mid-day meal,” from noon + Middle English schench “drink.” https://www.etymonline.com/word/lunch It’s fucking beverage all the way down in English. Bonus: BRIBE. Lunch’d O dear! Permit me, my dear Mrs. Prattle, to refresh my sponge, upon the honey dew that clings to your ravishing pouters. O! Mrs. Prattle, this shall be my lunch.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 hours agodeleted by creator
https://www.etymonline.com/word/lunch
It’s fucking beverage all the way down in English.
Bonus:
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