Reverse Dictionary: DINNER

(also see MEAL, POTLUCK)

ADJECTIVES
► CENATICAL pertaining to dinner or supper → 1725
► CENATORY pertaining to dinner or supper → 1650 obs.
► DINNERISH hungry, ready for dinner → 1888 Eng. dial.

NOUNS
► BEAN TIME dinnertime → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► BLOW-UP a dinner, supper, or other entertainment for which an abundant supply of food and drink is provided or at which it is consumed; a feast → 1807-8 chiefly US
► CHUCK dinner → 1905 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► DIENEN a meal, dinner; sufficient for a meal → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► DIN-DIN dinner; a meal → 1905 UK children’s vocabulary
► DIN-DINS dinner; a meal → 1920 UK children’s vocabulary
► DINE dinner → 1787 Sc.
► DINNERING dining, having dinner → 1856 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► DINNER-PIECE dinner, food for dinner → 1894 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► DINNER-WHILE dinner-time → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GLORIOUS SINNER a dinner → 1903 rhyming sl. (Bk.)
► GREASE a meal, dinner → 1975 Amer. students’ sl.
► GRUNT a meal, dinner → 1972 African-American sl.
► INSIDE-LINING food; a dinner → 1851 Eng. dial.
► JIMMY SKINNER a dinner → 1896 rhyming sl. (Bk.)
► KAIL a main meal, dinner → 1807 Sc.
► KAIL-BELL a call to dinner → 1740 Sc.
► KAIL-TIME dinner-time, the time of dinner → 1790 Sc.
► KALE dinner, food → 1794 Sc.
► KALE-BELL the dinner-bell → a1776 Sc.
► KALE-TIME dinner-time → 1787 Sc.
► LILLEY AND SKINNER dinner → 1920s rhyming sl.
► MESS a meal, a dinner; an allowance of food → 1813 Sc.
► MICHAEL WINNER dinner → 1990s rhyming sl.
► ‘NER dinner → 1969 US sl.
► PACKING dinner → 1889 Eng. dial.
► POTATO TIME dinner time → 1982 Amer. dial.
 PUDDING TIME dinner time → 1834 Amer. dial.
► RUMP-STEAK AND A DOZEN dinner and has much as you liked to drink → 1893
 SAINT AND SINNER dinner → 1992 Cockney rhyming sl.

VERBS
► DINE WITH DUKE HUMPHREY to go without dinner or a meal → 1746
► HAVE TWINS to take dinner and tea at one meal → 19C Amer. sl.
► SADDLE THE SPIT to host a dinner or supper → L18 sl.