noun
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a midday break for rest or food
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midday; noon
Etymology
Origin of nooning
late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; see origin at noon, -ing 1
Example Sentences
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Once a day at least it seemed to tire from its ceaseless flow and to take a nooning spell.
From Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail by F. N. (Frederick N.) Wilson
Gull, the herring, 211. following the plow, 213. flight, 215. manners, 213. nesting, 216. nooning, 215. penalty for killing, 212. sent to the "Chosen People," 212. value of, 216.
From A Bird-Lover in the West by Olive Thorne Miller
Drowseth the nooning air On meads with red poppies set; Fair is the day—ah, fair!
From The Path of Dreams Poems by Leigh Gordon Giltner
During the "nooning" lunch was eaten in the cutting, and while they were sitting quiet a singular vibration of the earth could be felt.
From Down the Slope by James Otis
But the balancing of the can requires a happy combination of stones about the fire that the brief nooning of a day's tramp seldom affords, and baking is still more uncertain.
From The Jonathan Papers by Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris
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