Dictionary

suppermate en · NOUN

Etymology

From supper + -mate.

Meanings

1. A friend or colleague with whom one eats supper.
   • Since all the suppermates were interested businessmen and investors, they unanimously championed Ben Goodspeed’s book, the Tao Jones Averages on whole-brained investing. 1988 June, The Archon, page 36, column 2:
   • Third, respect your suppermate, so as not to eat more than he, for that is unlawful. 1991, Julie Scott Meisami, transl., The Sea of Precious Virtues (Baḥr al-Favāʼid): A Medieval Islamic Mirror for Princes, Salt Lake City, Ut.: University of Utah Press, →ISBN, page 156:
   • Across from Auda, a large man with his nose buried in his ale cup ignored his suppermates. 2010, Vanitha Sankaran, Watermark, Avon, →ISBN, page 77:
   • Ingrid Bergman’s suppermate at “21” was Francis Robinson of The Met Opera. 1968 March 9, Jack O’Brian, “New York’s Voice of Broadway”, in The Pocono Record, volume 79, number 275, Stroudsburg, Pa., page 6, column 3:
   • Marcellina, another suppermate, is also thirteen but looks to be eleven. 1984, Lorenzo W[ilson] Milam, The Cripple Liberation Front Marching Band Blues, San Diego, Calif.: Mho & Mho Works, →ISBN, page 197:
   • Fat Tuesday. What a great day to be at Rockaway Athletic Club, that bastion of cold beer, good food, and loud music in Columbia. What am I giving up for Lent? Guilt. That’s why I had no qualms about ordering the famous Pimento Cheese Fries with jalapeños and dominating them at our table of four. My suppermates had ditched their guilt, too; but by the time we were through, our pants were tight and we were happy. 2008, Aïda Rogers, “Rockaway Athletic Club, Columbia, Richland County”, in Stop Where the Parking Lot’s Full: A Collection of Sandlapper’s Favorite Restaurants, Sandlapper Society, Inc., →ISBN, page 132:

Forms

Coordinates

lunchmate · dinnermate