supper
An optional light meal consumed shortly before going to bed.
Noun
- An optional light meal consumed shortly before going to bed.
- There he stood, with admirable patience, […] longing to go to rest for hours past; aware that suppers disagreed with him […] so tired and longing for bed! - 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray,...
- Any meal eaten in the evening; dinner eaten in the evening, rather than at noon.
- We normally have supper at 7.
- A meal from a chip shop consisting of a deep-fried food with chips.
- a fish supper
- Roisin the savior paraded into the front room with three fish suppers, one sausage supper, one single fish, one single chips, a single sausage, a chicken and chips, and three curry and chips. - 2014, Gerald Hansen, An...
Origin
From Middle English soper, from Old French soper, from sope (“soup”). Compare French souper.
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Noun Entry 2
- A drinker, especially one who drinks slowly (i.e., one who sups).
Origin
Etymology tree English sup English -er English supper From sup + -er.
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Verb
- To consume a snack before going to bed.
- To eat dinner.
- To provide (a person or animal) with supper.
- Horns in the night-season are heard a great way off, and in the winter-season were blown at every farmer’s house about eight at night when they suppered the horses and cows; […] - 1815, “Supplement to Volume LXXXV. Part...
- I went to supper up my horses, and heard somebody; […] After suppering the horses, I went into the house, and saw Stacey, who asked me if I had suppered the horses. - 1828, John White, quotee, Trial of William Dyon, and...
- Foreigners, and deaf-mutes especially, who are not familiar with what we call “good usage,” frequently fall into ludicrous mistakes in framing sentences out of the elements that have been given them. One writes: […] “My...