sunbaker

English

Etymology

sunbake +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

Noun

sunbaker (plural sunbakers)

1. (Australia) One who sunbakes, a sunbather.
   • 1980, Rowan Hewison, Salt Pan, page 7:

     Here there were sunbakers, kids, old ladies, people reading the Sunday papers.

   • 2009, Charles Rawlings-Way, Sydney, Lonely Planet, page 76:

     Sunbakers and frisbee-throwers occupy the lawns; tourists dunk their feet in fountains on hot summer afternoons.

   • 2011, Larry Writer, The Australian Book of Disasters, unnumbered page:

     By early afternoon at Bondi, with the temperature 40 degrees Celsius, you could barely see the sand for sunbakers soaking up the rays and waiting for a surf carnival of lifesavers to start.

Related terms

• sunbake

Anagrams

• Urbaneks, sunbreak, un-breaks, unbrakes, unbreaks