afters en · NOUN · etymology 1
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep(o)teros Proto-Germanic *after Old English æfter Middle English after English after English -s English afters From after + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
Meanings
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(Ireland, UK, informal, uncountable) Dessert.
What are we having for afters, Mum? I really want ice cream.
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(informal, uncountable) The festivities held after a wedding meal.
To keep costs down at our wedding, we only had family at the banquet, but invited all our friends to the afters.
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(Ireland, UK, informal, uncountable) Fighting or arguing off the ball or when play has stopped.
42-2: From the other end Strauss has a bit of afters with Morne Morkel after yet another bouncer raps him on the gloves.
2010 David Lewis South Africa v England - as it happened: Proteas rip into top order as tourists flounder Daily Mail (16 January 2010)Clarke was dismissed in the sixty-seventh minute ... for overly enthusiastic afters with one of the Wexford players.
2012 May 12, Nine-man Harps crushed in Wexford, Donegal News:
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(Ireland, UK, uncountable) An after-hours drinking session in a public house.
The lights flashed when the landlord shouted, “Last round of drinks before bar closes. Here^([sic]) me folks, no 'Afters' tonight mates!”
2013, Hopeton Gray, Mystic Journeys: Madagascar:It was an afters pub, which meant it closed at 11 p.m., doors bolted, but with us all inside.
2017, Chris Difford, Some Fantastic Place: My Life In and Out of Squeeze:
- (uncountable) After-school care service.
Translations (7)
mk десе́рт (dessert) · bg десе́рт (dessert) · fi jälkkäri (dessert) · uk десе́рт (dessert) · pl deser (dessert) · fi jälkiruoka (dessert) · ru десе́рт (dessert)