brunch
Plural: brunches
Noun
- combination breakfast and lunch; usually served in late morning
- A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, and often consisting of typical foods from both of those meals.
Verb
Verb Forms: brunched, brunching, brunches
- To eat a late morning meal combining breakfast and lunch.
- eat a meal in the late morning
- "We brunch in Sundays"
- To eat brunch.
Examples
- After a long Words With Friends tournament, we planned to brunch and dissect our gameplays.
- Feeling a bit peckish, Sandra made herself some brunch with the leftovers in her fridge.
- I normally have brunch at the café next to work.
- Let's do brunch sometime at the salad bar!
Origin / Etymology
Blend of breakfast + lunch. Attested from 1895 in British English and from 1930 in the United States.
Scrabble Score: 13
brunch: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbrunch: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
brunch: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 16
brunch: valid Words With Friends Word