luncher

plural lunchers · alternative lunchor

1. Someone who lunches; someone who eats lunch.

   Late lunchers had the pick of the menu.

   2014, John Howard Reid, Merryll Manning: A Brush with Death, page 80

   1 more example

   The knowledge of envy was a pleasant feeling to the man of no account. It was intensified later in the day when a luncher at the Club said, spitefully, “Well, for a debilitated Ditcher, Yeere, you are going it.”

   1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 30

2. One who treats another person to lunch.

   If the luncher, choose venue carefully, reconnoitre loos. If lunchee, be prompt, but not early.

   2008, Stephen Bayley, Roger Mavity, Life's a Pitch: How to Sell Yourself and Your Brilliant Ideas, page 213