This concept is not a word attested in OED.
Sometimes we settle for any kind of dinner we can get. I note here that Tolkien and C.S.Lewis have notably sumptuous descriptions of meals – I’ve heard it said that British authors who survived war rationing have a tendency to do so. Can anyone link me a good paper on the topic? Brian Jacques, whose Redwall banquets make my mouth water, was a child in World War II.
This hyphenated word is made from two common words, and has a hyphenated entry in OED.
Swords into ploughshares – the Shire is heaven on Middle-Earth.
“dish, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 7 September 2017.
This hyphenated word is made from two common words. Tolkien never uses “dining room” as two separate words. We may be certain that in Bilbo’s native language there was a specific – and probably important! – word for dining-room, not just some subcategory of “room”. In the OED, this hyphenated form is the preferred spelling.
Just updating this entry to note that it’s a food word just as much as cellar or pantry is!
“dining-room, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 7 September 2017.
Crockery is earthenware, compared to the wooden drinking vessels we see elsewhere.
I imagine a more northerly subspecies than modern cork trees that can grow in the Shire.
Well, now I’ve learned something! I thought that Gollum called the first riddle a “chestnut” because that might be an idiom for “easy to crack”. I have been educated. OED tells us:
6. slang. A story that has been told before, a ‘venerable’ joke. Hence, in extended use, anything trite, stale, or too often repeated.
“chestnut | chesnut, n. and adj.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2016. Web. 2 June 2016.
Casks were left out of our first consideration of food, but if tobacco-jars are in, certainly casks should be!
Derived through Middle French from a Romanic root something like *carnio, flesh. While one meaning of “carrion” is specifically rotting flesh that is unfit to eat, adjectivally it indicates beings which eat or use that same rotting flesh. One bird’s squick is another bird’s squee…
“carrion, n. and adj.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 28 July 2015.
Tea-time, supper-time, after-supper, breakfast-time – I might need a Hobbit-style clock!
OED gives it with the hyphen in its headword.
“breakfast, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 5 September 2017.
words that you were saying 