dinnery

English

Etymology

dinner + -y

Adjective

dinnery (comparative more dinnery, superlative most dinnery)

  1. Of or relating to dinner; resembling dinner.
    • 1866, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter 44,
      “For with an invalid so much depends on tranquillity. In the drawing-room, for instance, she might constantly be disturbed by callers; and the dining-room is so—so what shall I call it? so dinnery,—the smell of meals never seems to leave it; it would have been different if dear papa had allowed me to throw out that window—”
    • c. 1943, Emily Carr, “Red Roses” in Ann-Lee Switzer (editor), This and That: The Lost Stories of Emily Carr, TouchWood Editions, 2011,
      It was evening, the hour when warm dinnery smells pervaded the walls and whiffs of other people’s trays came a-visiting.
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