"Victuals" is the correct word for food and drink; or you can use the old English form of the word "vittles". Drink or beverages alone are sometimes referred to as "libations". According to US Legal, aliments are food or drinks that can provide nourishment and support life.
From Middle English fode, foode, from Old English fōda (“food”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōdō, from Proto-Germanic *fōdô (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”).
From Middle English drinken, from Old English drincan (“to drink, swallow up, engulf”), from Proto-West Germanic *drinkan, from Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”), of uncertain origin; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrenǵ- (“to draw into one's mouth, sip, gulp”), nasalised variant of *dʰreǵ- (“to draw, glide”).
Etymology 1. From Middle English eten, from Old English etan (“to eat”), from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną (“to eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁édti, from *h₁ed- (“to eat”).
Lunch is short for luncheon, a word dating to the 1650s that once meant “thick hunk,” as in a thick hunk of meat. At the same time, there was an English word nuncheon, which meant a midday meal. That word is a combination of “noon” and an obsolete word schench, which meant “to have a drink.”
Etymology. From Middle English thirst, thurst, from Old English þurst, from Proto-West Germanic *þurstu, from Proto-Germanic *þurstuz, from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”).
So, what is F&B service? Food and beverage services can be any situation within hospitality or a wider industry where people are provided with food and drinks. This can include restaurants, bars, catering, cafeterias, and food delivered to people through room service at hotels.
As well as using the plural 'drinks', you can also use the plural 'foods'. Both words can be used non-countably to mean food or drink in general, but that may not be the best way to ask this question.
“Grub” is a slang word for food. “I'm hungry. Let's get some grub!” https://www.espressoenglish.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/EE-food-drink2.mp3. Two other slang words for food are nosh and chow.
Grub – is slang for food and comes from the old English word meaning 'dig'. The association with digging for food morphed into the slang we use today. Gobby – is used to describe someone who talks a lot and has a lot of opinions, and not necessarily in a good way.
Bevvy - If someone asks you if you want to come out for a bevvy, they are asking you to the pub for a beer. Bevvy is just short for beverage, but in this context the beverage in question is obviously of the alcoholic nature!
Among the terms used to reference alcohol are: booze, firewater, hooch, sauce, spirit, juice, poison, liquid courage, giggle juice, giggle water, moonshine, tipple, nightcap (a drink before bed), shooter (a shot), rotgut (poor quality or toxic liquor), brewski (beer), suds (beer), cold one (beer), half-rack (12-pack of ...
So, “delicious” is a word we use when we think something tastes good. We can use this for food or drinks. “Chinese food is delicious!” So, “water” is just the word we use for the thing we drink, the most basic thing to drink.
synonyms: imbibing, imbibition. types: gulping, guzzling, swilling. the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly. potation. the act of drinking (especially an alcoholic drink)
History. In Old English, a regular morning meal was called morgenmete, and the word dinner, which originated from Gallo-Romance desjunare ("to break one's fast"), referred to a meal after fasting.
The terminology around eating in the UK is still confusing. For some "lunch" is "dinner" and vice versa. From the Roman times to the Middle Ages everyone ate in the middle of the day, but it was called dinner and was the main meal of the day. Lunch as we know it didn't exist - not even the word.
The word 'lunch' refers to the part of the meal that's consumed during the afternoon. The word 'dinner' refers to the main meal of the day that's consumed during evening or at night.
