dinnery

English

From dinner +‎ -y.

dinnery (comparative more dinnery, superlative most dinnery)

(informal) Of or relating to dinner; resembling dinner.
- 1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, chapter 44, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC:
  “For with an invalid so much depends on tranquillity. In the drawing-room, for instance, she might constantly be disturbed by callers; and the dining-room is so—so what shall I call it? so dinnery,—the smell of meals never seems to leave it; it would have been different if dear papa had allowed me to throw out that window—”
- c. 1943, Emily Carr, “Red Roses”, in Ann-Lee Switzer, editor, This and That: The Lost Stories of Emily Carr‎^[1], TouchWood Editions, published 2011:
  It was evening, the hour when warm dinnery smells pervaded the walls and whiffs of other people’s trays came a-visiting.