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Nooning

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A nap or rest in the middle of the day. archaic, dialectal

    "When the girls went in to dinner the men had finished theirs, and were lounging in the shady yard enjoying their nooning."

  2. 2
    lunch; a meal in the middle of the day archaic, dialectal

    "Then on to Big Bitter Cottonwood, where we had our nooning among the trees on the wide sandy bed of the stream, which had sunk under ground for many miles, as is the custom of rivers here."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of noon form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From noon + -ing.

Etymology 2

From noon + -ing.

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