diner-out

American  

[dahy-ner-out] / ˈdaɪ nərˈaʊt /

noun

plural

diners-out

1. a person who dines out.

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Etymology

Origin of diner-out

1800–10; dine out + -er ¹

Example Sentences

In term-time Walter Starkie is professor of Spanish literature in Dublin University, a director of the Abbey Theatre, the most indefatigable diner-out in Dublin, with a finger in every literary, academic and musical pie.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Vice President is the administration's prime diner-out.

From Time Magazine Archive

I was once at a dinner-party," said an accomplisht diner-out, "apparently of undertakers hired to mourn for the joints and birds in the dishes, when part of the ceiling fell.

From Conversation What to Say and How to Say it by Conklin, Mary Greer

Talking of the bad effects of late hours Sydney Smith said of a distinguished diner-out that it would be written on his tomb, "He dined late."

From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Hardy, Edward John

A good diner-out, a good visitor among the poor.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 by Various