supper
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English soper, from Old French soper, from sope (“soup”). Compare French souper.
Inflected forms:
form: suppers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: suppers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: suppering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: suppered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: suppered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An optional light meal consumed shortly before going to bed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There he stood, with admirable patience, […] longing to go to rest for hours past; aware that suppers disagreed with him […] so tired and longing for bed!
gloss: Any meal eaten in the evening; dinner eaten in the evening, rather than at noon.
pos: noun
tags: Atlantic-Canada
Canadian-Prairies
Midwestern-US
South-Africa
countable
uncountable
examples: We normally have supper at 7.
gloss: A meal from a chip shop consisting of a deep-fried food with chips.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
Northern-Ireland
Scotland
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: a fish supper
Roisin the savior paraded into the front room with three fish suppers, one sausage supper, one single fish, one single chips, a single sausage, a chicken and chips, and three curry and chips.
gloss: To consume a snack before going to bed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To eat dinner.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To provide (a person or animal) with supper.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Horns in the night-season are heard a great way off, and in the winter-season were blown at every farmer’s house about eight at night when they suppered the horses and cows; […]
I went to supper up my horses, and heard somebody; […] After suppering the horses, I went into the house, and saw Stacey, who asked me if I had suppered the horses.
Foreigners, and deaf-mutes especially, who are not familiar with what we call “good usage,” frequently fall into ludicrous mistakes in framing sentences out of the elements that have been given them. One writes: […] “My friend suppered me” instead of gave me supper. Such expressions are according to rule, and appear singular only because they have not come into general use.
It was Friday when this idea suggested itself to my mind, and, so soon as I had suppered the horses, I dashed into the wood, disturbing pheasants right and left, and forcing the lively rabbits, out for the evening’s sports, to beat a hasty retreat!
My birthday was a “Fourth of July” from early a. m., when your sweet gift greeted me, till 2 a. m., when “The Players” “suppered” me gorgeously.
In his new employment it was agreed that David should be allowed to go on winter nights at eight o’clock, after he had suppered the horses, to a night school at a place called Millwell, perhaps about three miles or so distant, to take lessons in arithmetic.
Ronald went out to Dougal after dinner and stood by him while he suppered the pony.
[W]hile the prospect of being the gudewife of one of the neighbouring farms, where the farmer held the plough, suppered the horses, turned out and brought in the “kye” when the herd was absent on an errand, and smelt habitually of the stable and the byre, no prospect could have been more odious to her.
Snapdragon: […] What wind blew thee hither? / The Beetle: No wind; but that sweet leaf which suppered me / Last eve, and music of our cricket friend, / Who still persists in serenading thee.
His Honour and Mrs Abbott graciously suppered me at Darwin’s Government House in a cool and wholesome lounge room.
However, once the calves have been suppered, the dogs must be fed too.
Most nights the boy they called Tynan suppered us with scrapple from a can.
Related words: soup
Derived words: box supper
brupper
bump supper
Burns supper
churn supper
covered dish supper
cowboy supper
faith supper
fall supper
fish supper
harvest supper
Jiggs supper
kern supper
kitchen supper
Last Supper
Lord's Supper
lupper
pie supper
progressive supper
rere-supper
safari supper
sing for one's supper
song and supper room
supper club
supper hour
supper-hour
supperless
suppermate
supper time
suppertime
supper-time
supperwards
supperware
unsuppered
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