Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of taking supper; supper.

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  • verb Present participle of supper.

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Examples

  • Such a supper, or rather succession of suppering, there had been to-night, various devils and broils and hot toasts having been brought up from time to time first for one and then for another.

    The Way We Live Now 2004

  • Cuddie; “I ken weel what belangs to suppering a horse, and this is a very gude ane.”

    Old Mortality 2004

  • We have tables and chairs in them; we do our reading, writing, studying, smoking, and suppering in them ....

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • When Charles Dickens visited America, our people testified their admiration of his homely genius by going mad, receiving him with frantic acclamations of delight, dining him, and suppering him, and going through the 'pump-handle movement' with him.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

  • We have tables and chairs in them; we do our reading, writing, studying, smoking, and suppering in them ....

    Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • We have tables and chairs in them; we do our reading, writing, studying, smoking, and suppering in them ....

    Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • "Surely now shall he be suppering by his friends."

    Diversions in Sicily Henry Festing Jones 1889

  • We have tables and chairs in them; we do our reading, writing, studying, smoking and suppering in them.

    Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) Mark Twain 1872

  • We have tables and chairs in them; we do our reading, writing, studying, smoking and suppering in them.

    Complete Letters of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1872

  • Dawtie found Andrew in the stable, suppering his horses, told him she had something to talk to him about, and asked if he would let her go with him in his walk the next day.

    The Elect Lady George MacDonald 1864

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