andersmeat

A light snack consumed in the afternoon.

Noun

  1. A light snack consumed in the afternoon.
  2. A lunch.
    • This is my whack of bread and cheese for andersmeat. - 1905, Joseph Wright (editor), The English Dialect Dictionary, page 437:

Origin

Apparently from a variant of undern + -s- + meat, but perhaps via alteration of Old English undernmete (“breakfast”), unattested in this sense. Compare Middle English orendron mete.