andersmeat

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noun

A light snack consumed in the afternoon.

OriginOld English undernmete →
Scrabble 13
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Meanings

noun
  1. EnglandobsoleteregionalA light snack consumed in the afternoon.
  2. EnglandobsoleteregionalA lunch.

    This is my whack of bread and cheese for andersmeat.

    1905, Joseph Wright (editor), The English Dialect Dictionary, page 437

Origin

  1. Old Englishundernmete“breakfast”
  2. Englishandersmeat

Apparently from a variant of undern + -s- + meat, but perhaps via alteration of Old English undernmete (“breakfast”), unattested in this sense. Compare Middle English orendron mete.

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APA

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Chicago

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