Vol. 10 · Portmanteaus ·The Victorian portmanteau ·1895
Brunch
breakfast lunch
- Meaning
- A meal combining breakfast and lunch, usually late-morning on weekends.
- Source words
- breakfast + lunch
- Coined by
- Guy Beringer
- Year
- 1895
Background
Coined in "Brunch: A Plea" in *Hunter's Weekly*, where Beringer argued that Sunday brunch would replace post-Church luncheons and "set a sociable and good-tempered tone."
The Victorian portmanteau
Lewis Carroll didn't invent portmanteau-making, but he named the technique and demonstrated it with enough flair that the word-class is often traced to him. Two of the words here are direct Carroll coinages.
Two words, one coinage.
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