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lunch (n.)<\/a> “mid-day repast,” 1786, shortened form of luncheon (q.v.). The verb meaning “to take to lunch” (said to be from the noun) also is attested from 1786:<\/p>\n

PRATTLE. I always to be \u017fure, makes a point to keep up the dignity of the family I lives in. Wou’d you take a more \u017folid refre\u017fhment?–Have you lunch’d, Mr. Bribe?<\/p>\n

BRIBE. Lunch’d O dear! Permit me, my dear Mrs. Prattle, to refre\u017fh my sponge, upon the honey dew that clings to your ravi\u017fhing pouters. O! Mrs. Prattle, this \u017fhall be my lunch. (ki\u017f\u017fes)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

from “The Mode,” in William Davies’ “Plays Written for a Private Theatre,” London, 1786<\/p>\n

But as late as 1817 the only definition of lunch in Webster’s is “a large piece of food.” OED says in 1820s the word “was regarded either as a vulgarism, or as a fashionable affectation.”<\/p>\n

Related: Lunched; lunching. Lunch money is attested from 1868; lunch-time (n.) is from 1821; lunch hour is from 1840. Slang phrase out to lunch “insane, stupid, clueless” first recorded 1955, on notion of being “not there.” Old English had nonmete “afternoon meal,” literally “noon-meat.”<\/p>\n

from the Online Etymology Dictionary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

lunch (n.) “mid-day repast,” 1786, shortened form of luncheon (q.v.). The verb meaning “to take to lunch” (said to be from the noun) also is attested from 1786: PRATTLE. I always to be \u017fure, makes a point to keep up the dignity of the family I lives in. Wou’d you take a more \u017folid refre\u017fhment?–Have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8002317,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1374926400,"_wcpt_session_duration":1800,"_wcpt_session_type":"custom","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[152006,152005],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-133760","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-developers-and-designers","wcb_track-users-and-entrepreneurs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iFlw-yNq","session_date_time":{"date":"July 27, 2013","time":"12:00 pm"},"session_speakers":[],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sf.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/133760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sf.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sf.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sf.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/133760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164692,"href":"https:\/\/sf.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/133760\/revisions\/164692"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sf.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/andreamiddleton"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sf.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sf.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=133760"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sf.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=133760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}