Show Derivation of Luncheon A lunch etymologically Is just a lump In tho sixteenth century a lunch of bacon meant merely a slice or hunk of It So Burns speaks of bread and cheese dealt about In lunches and Scott records that little Benjle was ramming a hugo luncheon of piecrust into his mouth While In modern times lunch Is an abbreviation from luncheon tho latter was originally an elongation ol lunch A philologist shows how tho old noon shenk noon drink came to mean nooneating and to appear as nunsheon and tho development thereafter of luncheon from lunch was very natural naturaldellRinging |