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発音

• 韻: -ʌntʃə(ɹ)

名詞

luncher (plural lunchers)

1. Someone who lunches; someone who eats lunch.
   • 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 30:

     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.”

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

     Late lunchers had the pick of the menu.

2. One who treats another person to lunch.

   Coordinate term: lunchee

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

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

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別の表記

• lunchor