Dictionary

supperware en · NOUN

Etymology

From supper + -ware.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The dishes used for serving supper.
   • I stupidly upset the table and the supperware. That was the noise you heard. I shall clean it myself. 1995, Megan Davidson, Road to the Isle, Pinnacle Books, page 40:
   • Supperware sat unwashed in the pan. 1964, James J. Galvin, Blessed John Neumann, Bishop of Philadelphia, Baltimore, Md.; Dublin: Helicon, →LCCN, page 135:
   • What’s he trying to do to us? her father says, as they pass a shop displaying porcelain supperware and an ornate silver epergne. 2005, Kevin Haworth, The Discontinuity of Small Things, Quality Words In Print, →ISBN, page 41:
   • The same Lydians so admired by upwardly mobile aristocrats back in the days of Croesus, for instance, had been widely despised by the vast majority of Ionians who were unable to afford purple cloaks, perfumes or golden supperware. 2005, Tom Holland, Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West, Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 150:
   • He paid attention to the wood of the table and the glass of the supperware. 2021, Rose Garcia, Fae Away (Fae Bloodlines; book 1):
   • As she carried their supper to the table she saw the dirty supperware Hunter had cleared from the table and stacked on the workbench. 1997 April, Norah Hess, Blaze, New York, N.Y.: Leisure Books, →ISBN, pages 143–144:
   • But when he suggested putting all their supperware in a wash basin and leaving it out on the back steps for the thunderbird to lick clean she laughed like hell and favored him with a far-from-motherly kiss. 1992 May, Tabor Evans [pen name], Longarm and the Lady Sheriff, New York, N.Y.: Jove Books, →ISBN, pages 50–51:
   • The pottery was running smoothly, the output of brightly decorated tea- and supperware stacked neatly on shelves ready for the final firing. 2000, Iris Gower [pen name; Iris Davies], Daughters of Rebecca, Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 260: