bedinner
English
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[edit]bedinner (third-person singular simple present bedinners, present participle bedinnering, simple past and past participle bedinnered)
- (transitive, nonce word) To take to dinner.
- 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter VI, The Landed”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book IV (Horoscope):
- Can he do nothing for his Burns but make a Gauger of him; lionise him, bedinner him, for a foolish while: then whistle him down the wind, to desperation and bitter death?
- 1863, Duncan George Forbes Macdonald, British Columbia and Vancouver's Island:
- Do not trouble yourself with introductory letters to any of the colonists; they will never procure you a dinner, unless you are reported to be a man of capital or credit, in which case you will be bedinnered and bedrained until your money is gone and your credit ruined.