diner-out

[ dahy-ner-out ]

noun

, plural din·ers-out.

1. a person who dines out.

Word History and Origins

Origin of diner-out¹

1800–10; dine out + -er ¹

Example Sentences

The diner-out had waited a quarter of an hour for his soup.

From Project Gutenberg

One evening a well-known diner-out discarded his crust of bread, and ate his fish with two silver forks; this notion found such general favour that society dropped the humble crust and took up a second fork.

From Project Gutenberg

Definition for a Diner-out.—An unlicensed wittler, quoth our worthy 'ost.—'Arry.

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It was to be remarked that those of his dress, which managed to be splendid even while remaining the general spare uniform of the diner-out, had the effect of higher refinements, of accents stronger and better placed, than we had ever in such a connection seen so much as hinted.

From Project Gutenberg

In England, the great diner-out, Douglas Jerrold, who knows all about it, says, “If an earthquake were to engulf all England to-morrow, Englishmen would manage to meet, and dine somewhere among the rubbish,” as if the occasion needed to be celebrated in that way.

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