| 词组 | brunch |
| 释义 | brunch Why is brunch in a usage book? It comes in for mention in Evans 1957, Harper 1975, 1985, and Reader's Digest 1983. Evans and Reader's Digest note the existence of opinion disparaging the word. • ... you might wind up for breakfast-luncheon (we're still allergic to that word brunch) —Mademoiselle, October 1948 Reader's Digest quotes a disparaging remark by Heywood Broun, and Mimi Sheraton, a writer on food, does too: • ... of which the late Heywood Broun said, "There may be some perfectly nice people who use the word 'brunch,' but I prefer not to know about them." — N.Y. Times, 18 Mar. 1977 The word was once often printed in quotation marks, too, suggesting some uncertainty as to its status. Harper notes that "Sunday brunch" was commonly advertised in the 1930s; it still is today. The word is a coinage blended from breakfast and lunch, going back only to 1896. The 1896 citation in the OED Supplement is from Punch, and Punch claimed the coinage for "Mr. Guy Beringer, in the now defunct Hunter's Weekly" in 1895. Apparently no actual example of Mr. Beringer's use has surfaced. Here are a few early examples and a few of more recent vintage. You can see the change of status. • Brunch, as we suppose everybody knows, is, or better was, that halfway meal between breakfast and lunch, which indolence or impecuniosity long ago invented —The Nation, 23 Mar. 1921 • ... not a luncheon, you see, nor even that meal of profligates, "brunch" —Manchester Guardian Weekly, 31 July 1925 • Brunch, as far as Miss Bankhead is concerned, is a much more satisfactory way of entertaining than the formal eight-o'clock dinner —Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Aug. 1932 • Brunch is an urban phenomenon, and the term covers virtually any meal eaten on Sunday between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. It is a sort of culinary status symbol —Dave Salyers, Chicago, September/October 1972 • ... on weekends it's fun to entertain at breakfast or brunch —Ann Valentine, Houston Post, 5 Sept. 1984 • At brunch (our holiday routine) my father said grace as usual —Ronald Hugh Morrieson, Landfall 112, December 1974 • Brunch is always lovely foods—never ordinary weekly fare —Victoria Van Antwerp, Western Massachusetts Mag., March/April 1984 |
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