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supper

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1300, OED Evaluation: N/A

The last meal of the day; (contextually) the time at which this is eaten, supper time. Also: the food eaten at such a meal. Often without article, demonstrative, possessive, or other modifier.

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... we were barn brats instead of you-know, growing up on the streets of New-Liskeard. So- so we'd go there after school, we'd ride our horses. Half the time we wouldn't even want to come home for supper. We'd just would have brown bagged a sandwich and-
The last meal of the day.
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And we would sit a row in front of my dad. Then, I'd turn back half-way through and my dad would be sleeping (laughs). Um, and then my ma-mere would always cook us our- um our suppers. And she still cooks me lunch and dinner everyday. Despite the fact that I live like up- u-- like not in the same household. Like, I live in the apartment underneath them.
The last meal of the day.
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She was in there for four years. She didn't mind it in there too much. I used to go and get her every Sunday for su-- Sunday supper until she fell and broke her hip and then I couldn't get the wheelchair- those stairs. So then I used to go in Sunday noon and have lunch with her.
The last meal of the day.
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... they always have a cookhouse and it had bunkhouse and they'd hire a cook and maybe a cookee and they would be up at six in the morning and out on the road in the bush at seven, take their lunch with them, come back at six and have supper after six. Same thing in the saw mills in the summer time.
The last meal of the day.
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So we- and at night there- there was ano-- a six-o'clock supper. And usually for some of us that were slower, there was a seven-o'clock supper. So lots of times I was in for the seven-o'clock supper at night. Seven days a week.
The last meal of the day.
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And followed them back up and then you'd- can't remember, I guess I must've- then I guess we must've come in and had supper and did our homework or-whatever.
The last meal of the day.
And I had a brunch for supper Monday night and Tuesday- what did we do Tuesday- oh, we went to a- a senior's day downtown. Yesterday we went to his nephews cottage to help them (inc) renovating the cottage.
The last meal of the day.
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So ah, we would go get her for- take her for coffee and shopping in the afternoon. And ah, if we had something going on, she would come over for supper and-that, so she wasn't ah- she wasn't, like an invalid.
The last meal of the day.
Oh yes, she liked- she would look forward to the bingos and ah, she ah, enjoyed when they had big ah, suppers, where y-- the kids could come. And w- like, a potluck supper and-that, she enjoyed that a lot. Yeah.
The last meal of the day.
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It just looks like chicken. It almost tastes like chicken too. And she cooked up a batch one night and we're having supper and Judith found out it was rabbit, she (laughs)- she wouldn't eat them then. "You eaten my rabbits!" (Laughs)
The last meal of the day.
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My mom would be calling us in after dark for supper after my dad got home and-that um which we don't tend to be outside so much now in the- in the winter, I-don't-know if it's because of my age or- or if it's just the whole trend you-know ...
The last meal of the day.
... my dad ah after my brother said, "No, never learned a thing," he ah he thought he was being so smart, and my dad said, "Well, after supper, you're going to go to the encyclopedias and you're going to write a page about something, you're going to find in that encyclopedia and you're going to write a page about what you've learned out of that encyclopedia ...
The last meal of the day.
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Speaker: No, we went down to Toronto because um- Interviewer: Visiting the kids- Speaker: The kids were there and we went out for supper. No, we didn't! Aveena cooked supper at home for us.
The last meal of the day.
And then we still have a bit of our Italian club left over. ... And we get together every once in a while for a little social with them. There's only about I say twenty, twenty-two that are active. ... And ah we ah go out for supper or we get together and we ah ah bring food in and have just like a social evening, eh.
The last meal of the day.
We used to do the like the Italian food- ... And the Ukrainian halls and the Polish halls, they would do their cabbage rolls and perogies and things like that. They'd come to our suppers, we'd go to theirs.
The last meal of the day.
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Speaker: "By five-o'clock I've had my supper and I'm fishing." I said "You, for Christ's sakes, you're not even out of the hou-- out of the- out of the factory yet." Eh? So. Interviewer: So you must have cleaned yourself up pretty good if you were an alcoholic before you were thirteen.
The last meal of the day.
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And it started at Kirkland and the Italian-Club took on that they gave them a certain amount of money because it was not funded at that time. And they gave them a- ah, a certain amount each year, so that was their main project, when they raised money with suppers, or-whatever, steak dinners, and whatever they served. And pretty proud of that.
The last meal of the day.
Their big day was ah, what do you call it, Valentine's-Day? ... And the odd- the red tableclothes and the bottles and the little candle linen and the supper, the spaghetti supper and then the beautiful meals to follow, and that went on for years and years. And this was one way how they raised their monies for this- the- for the ah, challenged children.
The last meal of the day.
They're great cooks and she- they- there- that's a big challenge, they look after- one cook looks after over a hundred meals for supper, one girl.
The last meal of the day.
Speaker: ... of-course you can see that I'm a little bit of a talker, so I get downtown at one-o-clock, I wouldn't get back 'til four (laughs). Interviewer: (laughs). Speaker: Start supper for nine people, come-on, eh? Interviewer: Oh no. So you just- why you just run into people. Speaker: Yeah, eh. They couldn't get away from me. I got them (laughs). No, no, no-
The last meal of the day.