Four Square
Jun 17
2009
2009
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Where did the term “four square meals a day” come from?
I heard this expression a couple of times and it struck me to ask “square?”
Square meal is an Americanism. It comes from the adjectival use of square to mean sturdy or substantial. There are older, related senses of the adjective square. In the 17th century, for example, square was used to describe someone who could eat and drink copious amounts.
The term square meal itself appears in the late 1860s, but does not become common until the 1880s. From the magazine All Year Round of 19 September 1868:
Roadside hotel-keepers…calling the miners’ attention to their “square meals:” by which is meant full meals
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