英和和英

語源

From four + -ing + -s

発音

• (RP) IPA: /fɔːɹɪŋs/, SAMPA: /fO:rIN/
• (米国発音) IPA: /fɔːɹɪŋs/, /foʊɹɪŋs/, SAMPA: /fO:rIN/, /foUrIN/

名詞

fourings (複数形 fouringses)

1. a meal taken at 4 o'clock

• 2009 — Andy Sturdevant, The Ragbag

  Most restaurants and bars already recognize a sort of de facto fourings in the form of discounted happy hour appetizers.

使用する際の注意点

While fourings may seem like it is plural, it is in fact singular. The correct usage would be something like, "fourings is a meal between lunch and dinner," or "fouringses are afternoon social gatherings involving food."

同意語

• (meal at 4 PM): fourses, fours

等位語

• (meals taken in the afternoon): beaver, cheesing, high tea, nuncheon, tea
• (other meals): bedlunch, breakfast, brunch, dinner, elevenses, lunch, noonmeat, second breakfast, tiffin

参照

• Halliwell, James Orchard (1901) A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words Gibbings and Company, Limited.
• Marshall (1784) A Rural Economy of Norfolk T. Cadell, in the Strand.