Definitions

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  • verb transitive, nonce word To take to dinner.

Etymologies

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be- +‎ dinner

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Examples

  • Can he do nothing for his Burns but make a Gauger of him; lionise him, bedinner him, for a foolish while; then whistle him down the wind, to desperation and bitter death?

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Gauger of him; lionise him, bedinner him, for a foolish while; then whistle him down the wind, to desperation and bitter death?

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

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  • To wine and dine.

    August 9, 2008

  • The act of, giving a person dinner: "He bedinnered me with a splendid three-course meal."

    June 17, 2009

  • Is this like being beveraged?

    June 17, 2009

  • Don't you mean "bebeveraged", RT?

    June 17, 2009

  • Hmm. Maybe bedrinked.

    June 17, 2009

  • I like bebeveraged and bedrinked. Now would someone please bring me something fruity, with an umbrella?

    June 17, 2009

  • *bebeverages chained_bear*

    Cupcake? Fufluns?

    *becupcakes chained_bear*

    June 17, 2009

  • Squee!

    June 17, 2009

  • Iced damn, anyone?

    June 17, 2009