noonchine

English

Noun

noonchine (countable and uncountable, plural noonchines)

1. Obsolete form of nuncheon.
   • 1810, Charles Vancouver, “Rural Economy”, in General View of the Agriculture of Hampshire, Including the Isle of Wight. Drawn Up for the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement., London: […] for Richard Phillips, […] by B. M^cMillan, […], section II (Servants), page 383:

     The ordinary breakfast of farm-servants is bread and skimmed-milk, with the remainder of what bacon was left the day before: their lunch or noonchine, consists of bread and cheese, with the small beer they take in their kegs to the field.

   • 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 151:

     “Yes---I left London this morning at eight o’clock, and the only ten minutes I have spent out of my chaise since that time, procured me a noonchine at Marlborough.”

   • 1872, [Charlotte Mary Yonge], “The Pillars of the House; or, Under Wode, Under Rode. Chapter XXV. Don or Mynheer?”, in [Charlotte Mary Yonge], editor, The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church, volume XIII, London: John and Charles Mozley, […]; Oxford: James Parker and Co., page 244:

     Sit down, Mr. Felix, and take your bit of noonchine.