andersmeat

English

Etymology

Apparently from a variant of undern +‎ -s- +‎ meat, but perhaps via alteration of Old English undernmete (“breakfast”), unattested in this sense. Compare Middle English orendron mete.[1]

Noun

andersmeat (England, regional, obsolete)

  1. A light snack consumed in the afternoon.
  2. A lunch.
    • 1905, Joseph Wright (editor), The English Dialect Dictionary, page 437:
      This is my whack of bread and cheese for andersmeat.

References

  1. ^ “andersmeat, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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