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little lunch
noun 1. the mid-morning break in primary school. Compare playlunch, recess.
2. a snack eaten then.
Contributor's comments: Extensive use in Tasmania.
Contributor's comments: Also used in FNQ.
Contributor's comments: With the exception of the kids in kinder and perhaps grade 1, this break was known as 'recess' on King Island.
Contributor's comments: [Tasmanian informant] At recess we always had little lunch.
Contributor's comments: This was definitely used at my primary school in Brisbane in late 80s to early 90s.
Contributor's comments: Living in Brisbane my children all had little lunch in the 1980s and 90s.
Contributor's comments: [New England District informant] Play lunch was used in the '70's, (Catholic school), but little lunch was also used. I remember being laughed at when I went to high school and used the term little lunch instead of recess.
Contributor's comments: This term was used by my cousins in Tully North Queensland in the 60s and 70s. In Sydney we called it Play lunch.
Contributor's comments: morning tea for school children: "I've got a lamington for little lunch"