square meal

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English

WOTD – 20 February 2022

Etymology

A dinner dish with, among other things, roast chicken and broccoli. A complete and satisfying meal is known as a square meal.

From square (“hearty, vigorous”) +‎ meal;[1]

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Noun

square meal (plural square meals)

  1. (idiomatic) A (nutritionally) complete and satisfying meal, especially one suitable for a person performing physical labour.
    Synonym: (US, elliptical) square
    Three square meals a day should give you plenty of energy.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see square,‎ meal.

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  1. ^ Compare “square, adj.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2021.
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