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nooning|ˈnuːnɪŋ|
Also 5 noynyng.
[f. noon n. + -ing1 1.]
1. Noontide. Now U.S.
c1460Towneley Myst. xxiv. 65 He has myster of nyghtys rest that nappys not in noynyng.
1880L. Wallace Ben-Hur vii. iv. 379 And so to them the nooning came, and the evening.
2. A noonday meal. Now dial. and U.S.
a1652Brome Mad Couple v. ii, Seaven constant ordinaries every night, Noonings, and intermealiary Lunchings. 1695Kennett Par. Antiq. Gloss. s.v. Ad Nonam, A great piece, enough to serve for a nooning or dinner of any common eater. 1711Addison Spect. No. 72 ⁋3 If he be disposed to take a Whet, a Nooning, an Evening's Draught, or a Bottle after Midnight. 1797R. Gurney in A. J. C. Hare Gurneys (1895) I. 71 Kitty would not let us go to nooning till we had finished a lesson we were about. a1833J. T. Smith Bk. for Rainy Day (1845) 260 At this time the servant announced Nooning. 1849Mrs. Rundell Dom. Cookery Pref. p. xii, Where noonings or suppers are served, care should be taken [etc.]. 1880‘Mark Twain’ Tramp Abroad ii. 18 A German gentleman and his two young lady daughters had been taking their nooning at the inn.
3. A rest or repose at noon. Now U.S.
1552Huloet, Noonynge, or noone rest, meridiatio.
1850Lowell Lett. I. 193, I mean to take a nooning and lie under the trees looking at the sky. 1883E. C. Rollins New Eng. Bygones 94 The noonings were bright features of a haying landscape.
b. U.S. An interval in the middle of the day, esp. for rest or food.
1865Reader 12 Aug. 172/3 In the ‘nooning’, as it is called in New England—that is, in the space between Sunday morning and afternoon services. 1884Harper's Mag. Nov. 830/2 The workmen, during their noonings, show equal interest.
4. attrib., as nooning-meal, nooning-place.
1865Mrs. Whitney Gayworthys v. (1879) 52 The simple nooning meal, that needed intervention of neither knife nor fork, was eaten. 1884J. G. Bourke Snake-Dance Moquis viii. 77 [He] confirmed this story by telling another of a sorcerer killed near this very nooning-place. |