din-dinsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

din-dins (uncountable)

1. (childish) Dinner.
   • 1979, Simon Gray, Stage Struck:

     […] so it went for nothing, my only real moment in the play, and when I asked him afterwards what the hell he thought he was up to, he said, well darling, if we're all so desperate for our din-dins we're not allowed a decent curtain, and I said it wasn't din-dins, it was just that the rest of us didn't particularly enjoy going on bowing after the audience had stopped clapping.

   • 1992, Rosamunde Pilcher, Flowers in the Rain and Other Stories:

     "Who's ready for their din-dins then? Who are Mummy's darling boys?"