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Blend of breakfast + lunch. Attested from 1895 in British English and from 1930 in the United States.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
brunch
Today it means: A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, often in a leisurely, festive, and/or social way, and often consisting of typical foods from both of those meals. Full definition →