Bedinner

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To take to dinner. nonce-word, transitive

    "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?"

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"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?"

Etymology

From be- + dinner.

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