undermeal

English

Etymology

From Middle English undermele, undermel (“the early part of the afternoon, midday, noon; an afternoon meal or nap”), from Old English undernmǣl (“morning, morning time; morning meal”), equivalent to undern +‎ meal. Compare the word for midday and the word undern.

Noun

undermeal (plural undermeals)

(obsolete) Synonym of undern: originally terce and the morning, later (UK, dialectal, obsolete) noon and the early afternoon.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868:
  In vndermeles, and in mornynges
  (please add an English translation of this quote)
- 1599, Nash, Leuten Stuff:
  By the time—he hath din'd at a taverne, and slept his undermeals at a bawdy-house, his purse is [empty].
(obsolete) Synonym of siesta: an afternoon nap.
- 1599, Nash, Leuten Stuff:
  In a narrower limit than the forty years' undermeal of the seven sleepers.
(obsolete) An afternoon meal or snack.
- 1608, Withals:
  Another great supper, or undermeal, was made ready for them, coming home from ditching and plowing.
- c. 1614–1631, Ben Johnson, Bartholomew Fayre: A Comedy:
  I think I am furnished for [=with] Cather'ne pears, [enough] for one undermeal.
- 1630, Samuel Ward, Sermon on the Life of Faith, quoted in 1883 in Kingsthorpiana; Or, Researches in a Church Chest, page 97:
  Why should not thy soul have her due drinks, breakfasts, meals, undermeals, bevers, and aftermeals, as well as thy body?'

Synonyms

(time of day): noon, terce; see also Thesaurus:midday
(afternoon nap): See Thesaurus:shut-eye
(meal): See Thesaurus:meal

References

"undermeal, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
undermeal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

denumeral

单词	undermeal
释义	undermeal English Etymology From Middle English undermele, undermel (“the early part of the afternoon, midday, noon; an afternoon meal or nap”), from Old English undernmǣl (“morning, morning time; morning meal”), equivalent to undern +‎ meal. Compare the word for midday and the word undern. Noun undermeal (plural undermeals) (obsolete) Synonym of undern: originally terce and the morning, later (UK, dialectal, obsolete) noon and the early afternoon. 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868: In vndermeles, and in mornynges (please add an English translation of this quote) 1599, Nash, Leuten Stuff: By the time—he hath din'd at a taverne, and slept his undermeals at a bawdy-house, his purse is [empty]. (obsolete) Synonym of siesta: an afternoon nap. 1599, Nash, Leuten Stuff: In a narrower limit than the forty years' undermeal of the seven sleepers. (obsolete) An afternoon meal or snack. 1608, Withals: Another great supper, or undermeal, was made ready for them, coming home from ditching and plowing. c. 1614–1631, Ben Johnson, Bartholomew Fayre: A Comedy: I think I am furnished for [=with] Cather'ne pears, [enough] for one undermeal. 1630, Samuel Ward, Sermon on the Life of Faith, quoted in 1883 in Kingsthorpiana; Or, Researches in a Church Chest, page 97: Why should not thy soul have her due drinks, breakfasts, meals, undermeals, bevers, and aftermeals, as well as thy body?' Synonyms (time of day): noon, terce; see also Thesaurus:midday (afternoon nap): See Thesaurus:shut-eye (meal): See Thesaurus:meal References "undermeal, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press. undermeal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913 Anagrams denumeral
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