Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A meal typically eaten late in the morning as a combination of a late breakfast and an early lunch.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In Oxford University slang, a meal which takes the place of breakfast and lunch.
Wiktionary
- n. A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, replacing both meals, and often consisting of some foods that would normally be eaten at breakfast and some foods that would normally be eaten at lunch.
- v. To eat brunch.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a late breakfast or an early lunch.
WordNet 3.0
- v. eat a meal in the late morning
- n. combination breakfast and lunch; usually served in late morning
Etymologies
- Blend of breakfast and lunch (Wiktionary)
- br(eakfast) + (l)unch. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“She followed that with BBC1's excellent, harrowing drama about the Ipswich murders, Five Women, and even in Misfits, despite the zingy humour look out for Socha chewing on the word "brunch" in this season's opener, there's a sadness to her character.”
“But that's not why this brunch is a noteworthy event.”
“The brunch is very nice and there is a nanny to take care of the children.”
The Wall Street Journal: It's a Modern Tale of Two Cities for H
“(Do take note that "attend unschooling brunch" is on my goal list!)”
“This fabulous brunch is only available for two days!”
Ocean and Vine Presents Their Legendary Brunch for Two Days Only!
“Raid the cupboards and the fridge; eat all the crisps that I call brunch;”
“Note: It appears that brunch is quite the standard for weekend socialising, so San Franciscans!?”
“To find out at which restaurant the brunch is being held on a given Sunday, email or call Charlie Montemayor at charlymont@redes.int.com.mx or (within Gto) 732-7272. gsgall”
“And your last one is a word like brunch, which is a blending of breakfast and lunch.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘brunch’.
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Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1078 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Portmanteaux
Words formed by joining two others and combining their meanings.
neurogami, sexting, churnalism, palabrarium, douchoisie, rhinocerwurst, handwavium, sharrow, malamanteau, frenemy, netiquette, brunch and 10 more...
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portmanteaus
slithy, chortle, mimsy, galumph, maffluent, smog, motel, momentaneous, splisters, swifting, editated, splatter and 73 more...
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Unfortunately Necessary Words
Words we have to use all the time, but that doesn't mean they sound good. In fact, they kind of suck. See also this list.
milk, cheese, neck, teeth, moist, dry, skin, head, feet, mouth, frankly, hair and 97 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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aozuas's Words
sense data, hyperreality, brouhaha, ibid, apophenia, fnord, lackadaisical, schadenfreude, bildungsroman, ready-made, readymade, tergiversar and 654 more...
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punnything's Words
existentialist, configure, numismatist, autumnal, desist, ennui, taciturn, vacillate, naivete, bloodletting, tete-a-tete, concentric and 274 more...
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Portmanteau Words
listicle, smog, Spanglish, brunch, bardolatry, spork, skort, jeggings, turducken, stagflation
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Winter Solstice
Words that have something to do with the holidays that fall on or near the Winter Solstice
Yule, Yule-log, holly, yew, bay, bay-leaf, bayberry, Holly King, Oak King, mistletoe, Christmas tree, star in the East and 150 more...
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encyclopedia gustatorica
béchamel, tart, pie, cupcake, roux, jambalaya, étouffé, succulent, plum, pomegranate, peach, apple and 300 more...
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Any word i can think of
WWWWWWEEEEEEEEE love words
abacus, abbadon, syzygy, fabulous, cleft, laker, langworthy, avarice, lust, function, normandy, achord and 22 more...
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Hilarious Portmanteaus
List of portmanteaus, fact and fiction. These make me laugh.
mentertaining, thinspiration, slitch, glitterati, beefalo, infotainment, jargonaut, japanimation, fucktard, brobot, cumpilation, ridonkulous and 29 more...
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Portmanteaus
Words created by combining 2 (or sometimes more)
smog, spork, brunch, camcorder, chortle, cremains, cyborg, fantabulous, ginormous, frenemy, ebonics, gerrymander and 34 more...
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new vocabulary for me
new words that I must rmember
hideous, ghastly, mongrel, dread, monetizing, likeability, concussion, springboard, resilience, forsake, loom, brunch and 3 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for brunch.
Prolagus See also aripnon and ientacena occurremus. Apr 14, 2008
bilby Haha @ both of you! Apr 14, 2008
Prolagus By the way, Colanzo could be a brand name for a ready-to-serve frozen fake Italian brunch. Apr 13, 2008
gangerh We had a brunch of bananas today. (Yes, we had some bananas!). Apr 13, 2008
Prolagus I wonder if it sounds to native English speakers half as ridicolous as colanzo* would sound in Italian.
*By the way, Italians use the word brunch. And I hate it. Apr 13, 2008