A meal eaten between breakfast and lunch, or a snack taken at midday; also a Scottish and Northern English word for lunch itself.
Possibly from a blend of 'dinner' and 'lunch,' or from Scottish dialect origins. The word appears in regional English and Scottish usage dating back to at least the 18th century, with the meaning shifting between regions to describe various midday meals.
Different regions of Britain have completely different names for the same meal—'dunch' is proof that even in one country, when people are separated by geography, they invent their own food vocabulary to describe basically the same hungry moment in the day.
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