Brunch is a meal in the late morning: too late for a normal breakfast, a bit early for lunch, and meant to stand in for both. You get breakfast food and lunch food on the same table — eggs and coffee, but maybe also a bigger plate. It is often a slow weekend meal with other people, not a quick bite before work. Cafés and restaurants in many countries now sell “brunch” as a late-morning menu. You can use it as a verb too (“We’re brunching on Sunday”), though that still sounds a little trendy or jokey to some ears. The word is a blend of breakfast and lunch. It shows up in British English from 1895, and in the United States from about 1930; the American weekend-brunch habit is what many learners meet first. Though actually, it is not only “breakfast eaten late” — the idea is one meal doing the job of two.