Citations:brupper

English citations of brupper

a meal combining aspects of both breakfast and dinner (seemingly without regard to whether breakfast foods or dinner foods are eaten)

• 1949 10, Collier's: Incorporating Features of the American Magazine, page 8:

  "I want some brupper!" [...] Suppose, as happens sometimes, a man gets up around five in the afternoon (this happens to me more often than I like to report). His first meal, then, comes at six, the ordinary, old-fashioned time for supper. But since this meal is actually his breakfast, shouldn't it be called brupper?

• 1968, Drama & Theatre:

  CHUCK: One meal a day combined. / HANK: Well, look, you know what brunch is? / CHUCK: Yes? / HANK: Well, she calls this brupper. / CHUCK: Brupper? / HANK : The works. At's her system. What can I do? CHUCK : Everything together. HANK : I know, it's terrible. Sometime I'm gonna ask her, "What's the side dish? The sunny-side-up eggs or the spaghetti?

brinner, breakfast foods for dinner

• 1954, Contact Point, volume 33, page 292:

  'Twas eggs, scrambled lightly, luscious portions of ham, served with hot cakes, hot muffins, and cafe (you see, it could well have been Paris). Of course I refer to the scrumptious brupper (thanks to Jim McKenna) which all who attended enjoyed at the El Nido in the green hills be hind the Campanile, near Lafayette. Many thanks to Dr. West, who delivered a pleasantly minced with humor type after brupper talk; […]