dinnermate

noun

Etymology

From dinner + -mate.

  1. derived from dis-
  2. derived from *disiūnō
  3. derived from disner
  4. inherited from dyner
  5. suffixed as dinnermate — “dinner + mate

Definitions

  1. A friend or colleague with whom one eats dinner.

    • Timid young men men became bold for the occasion and, bowing before the young women, selected their dinnermates.
    • This Pork Shoulder Roast with a Beer Glaze, for example, will give you a taste of Germany. It’s a real ego trip, too, when the returns are in from your dinnermates.
    • Libby and Val were greeted by Ernie Jones at their impressive up-front table and introduced to their Baxter and National dinnermates.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dinnermate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA