† noonmeat Obs.
Forms: 1 nónmete; 4–5 none mete (5 nun, nvne), 6 none, noone meat(e.
[f. noon n. + meat n. Now represented in dial. by nammet and nummet.]
A meal taken at noon, a luncheon.
| a 1000 Sal. & Sat. lix, On xii monðum ða scealt sillan ðinum þeowan men vii hund hlafa, and xx hlafa, buton morᵹenmetum, and nonmetum. c 1000 ælfric's Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 147 Merenda, nonmete. a 1400 Gloss. in Rel. Antiq. I. 6 Merenda, nonemete. 1428–9 Rec. St. Mary at Hill (1904) 71 Also payd for þe none mete on þe morwe of iij carpenters & ij plomers, a sholdere & a brist of moton. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 360/2 Nunmete, merenda. 1495 Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 22 §4 Laborers..longe sitting at ther brekfast at ther dyner and nonemete. 1548 Thomas Ital. Gram., Merenda, breakefast, or noone meate. 1591 Percivall Sp. Dict., Merendar, to take the noonemeat. |