Dictionary

luncher en · NOUN

Etymology

From lunch + -er.

Meanings

1. Someone who lunches; someone who eats lunch.
   • Late lunchers had the pick of the menu. 2014, John Howard Reid, Merryll Manning: A Brush with Death, page 80:
   • The knowledge of envy was a pleasant feeling to the man of no account. It was intensified later in the day when a luncher at the Club said, spitefully, “Well, for a debilitated Ditcher, Yeere, you are going it.” 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 30:
2. One who treats another person to lunch.
   • If the luncher, choose venue carefully, reconnoitre loos. If lunchee, be prompt, but not early. 2008, Stephen Bayley, Roger Mavity, Life's a Pitch: How to Sell Yourself and Your Brilliant Ideas, page 213:

Forms

Coordinates

lunchee

Deriveds

power luncher