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Lunch vs Lurch - What's the difference?

lunch | lurch |

As nouns the difference between lunch and lurch

is that lunch is a light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day while lurch is a sudden or unsteady movement.

As verbs the difference between lunch and lurch

is that lunch is to eat lunch while lurch is to make such a sudden, unsteady movement.

lunch

English

Noun

(es)
  • A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner.}}
  • (cricket) A break in play between the first]] and [[second session, second sessions.
  • (Minnesota, US) Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering.

    • Synonyms

    * (midday meal) luncheon

    Derived terms

    * liquid lunch * little lunch * lunch break * playlunch

    Descendants

    * Spanish:

    Verb

  • To eat lunch.
    • ''I like to lunch in Italian restaurants.

    Derived terms

    * luncher * lunchroom * ladies who lunch

    Related terms

    * luncheonette

    See also

    * breakfast * dine, dinner * supper ----

    lurch

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (es)
  • A sudden or unsteady movement.
    • the lurch of a ship, or of a drunkard
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • Yet I hoped by grouting at the earth below it to be able to dislodge the stone at the side; but while I was considering how best to begin, the candle flickered, the wick gave a sudden lurch to one side, and I was left in darkness.

    Verb

    (es)
  • To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
  • (obsolete) To leave someone in the lurch; to cheat.
  • * South
    • Never deceive or lurch the sincere communicant.
  • (obsolete) To steal; to rob.
  • * Shakespeare
    • And in the brunt of seventeen battles since / He lurched all swords of the garland.

    See also

    * leave someone in the lurch *

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) (lena) lurcare.

    Verb

    (es)
  • (obsolete) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Too far off from great cities, which may hinder business; too near them, which lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear.

    Etymology 3

    (etyl) .

    Noun

  • An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
  • A double score in cribbage for the winner when his/her adversary has been left in the lurch.
  • * Walpole
    • Lady Blandford has cried her eyes out on losing a lurch .

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