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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.

ExampleMeaning
But, but I remember they were really thick back in my grandfather's time. I remember when he was saying they were thrashing or-something one time. They had a bunch of men in there anyways, and they were in eating dinner or supper. And he said there were about a dozen or fifteen of them, and that there's ah still- well no they took the fence row out when the- my son rented it.
The last meal of the day.
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Cousins, yeah, yeah. We- we used to consider an all day drive then like you-know you were up early in the morning and had a picnic on the way (laughs) you got there in time for supper (laughs).
The last meal of the day.
We'd always get- Saturday in the winter, we always had fresh white fish for supper. That was sort of a- an old standby in the winter. It was a- 'cause there was a- a Mister-Handy-Store in town, you could always buy white-fish and in there.
The last meal of the day.
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Interviewer: Ah, did the fish come home f-- for supper then? Speaker: Yeah, if we got some, they'd come home for supper. But I could remember times you-know when we're fishing that- like the guy that went with me, he knew where the fish were apparently. We caught about dozen there one time in about ten minutes.
The last meal of the day.
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Speaker: And everybody worked together and so the mot-- then and the women had to make dinner then and supper for all the men and there'd be like twelve, fifteen men every time- Speaker 2: Three day- it might take three days at each farm to thresh it and it be six wagons.
The last meal of the day.
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Speaker: Well we had a neighbour, you know where Mississipi Valley is there? Interviewer: Yes, exactly yes. Speaker: There was a Vick-Fargo who lived there, he was a bachelor, and we'd have him down for supper once in a while. He lived by himself. He was something to talk to.
The last meal of the day.
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Well the one comes here in the morning, goes to school, and comes back after school 'til supper time, then he goes home, eh?
The last meal of the day.
... that they couldn't work out in the field, then they'd come and make a big supper. ... Potatoes and all-that-stuff, eh? So mostly your- the- the nights were very short, because you weren't in the house, eh? And by the time you'd g-- do the dishes, it was time for to go to bed.
The last meal of the day.
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So she will come in and sell us bunches of asparagus. And so I get as many as I can and then I share with my family. (laughs) But when I have an abundance, you-know, you get to the point where you're eating it, like, breakfast lunch and supper, just about. And then you say "Okay, I've- I've had my quote of it- quota of it." You try to do something else with it. And that's where then pickling it is just so easy, I found.
The last meal of the day.
(coughs) I know that, ah, there- there was myself and two other sisters, and we generally got to do the dishes after supper. Ah, washing and drying and someone would sweep the floor. And then there was a bit of a rotation. Sometimes there were conflicts, and the dishes didn't get washed properly. And they were on the drying-rack to be dried.
The last meal of the day.
Um, but yeah, so we had the- the chores after supper, ah, Saturday was a particularly, ah, ah- a day that was devoted to the h-- to maintaining the house, like, we would have to- we would dust or we would sweep or vacuum, and- total tidy-up time, Saturday morning, generally ...
The last meal of the day.
... every- every September we would get like a new fall dress and shoes and, of course we were children so we grew from one season to the next. But every fall- and we would to the Wilno chicken supper in September so that was the first day that you would put on your new fall clothes. And every spring we had a new little dress and shoes and socks of some sort, you-know.
The last meal of the day.
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... there'd be a gang of us going and um stop and build a bonfire and have tea and Christmas-cake and come back and, you-know everybody would come to the house and you'd have supper and- and go t-- we went to the ski-hill you-know when the- when the hill was open. Um yeah, you just- you- you played outside and- and you-know hung out and my brothers built forts, and climbed trees, and had sling-shots and you-know?
The last meal of the day.
I remember one time her saying- telling my mum, "Well the ladies at Saint-Hedwig's they- a couple of years ago they were having a- a supper in the summer," like a church supper. ... Or a strawberry so-- social or something. "And none of them could make strawb-- none of them could make angel-food cakes." This is from scratch, with just egg-whites.
The last meal of the day.
I'd never experienced anything like that growing in Barry's-Bay, you just didn't have- you-know you'd maybe go to the Brudenell-Turkey's-Chicken-Supper or-something, but it wasn't like this with, you-know hundreds and hundreds of people.
The last meal of the day.
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As-a-matter-of-fact, this creek that's going by. We fished a lot. Ah, I never did hunt but we- we- we brought home, ah, brook-trout for- for- for supper.
The last meal of the day.
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Six-o-clock in the morning. And then you went to school or you went to work or whatever you were doing. ... And then evening after supper you have to milk them again. Then you put them through the cream separator.
The last meal of the day.
I used to- we used to work there all day in the bush. And then we'd come for supper and mom would have supper and it would be so nice to come home.
The last meal of the day.
Interviewer: You put it on a string in a pail in the well? Speaker: Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Interviewer: (laughs) Speaker: That's how you kept- even milk. If you want your milk cold- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: You could put it like that in the daytime. And when you want supper then you brought it up.
The last meal of the day.
I remember lots of times for supper all we had is fried potatoes. ... That's all we had.
The last meal of the day.