Brunch is a combination of breakfast and lunch, and regularly has some
form of alcoholic drink (most usually champagne or a cocktail) served with
it. The word is a portmanteau of breakfast and lunch. Brunch originated in
England in the late 19th century and became popular in the United States
in the 1930s.
The 1896 supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary cites Punch magazine
which wrote that the term was coined in Britain in 1895 to describe a
Sunday meal for "Saturday-night carousers" in the writer Guy Beringer's
article "Brunch: A Plea" in Hunter's Weekly'
It is sometimes credited to reporter Frank Ward O'Malley who wrote for the
New York newspaper The Sun from 1906 until 1919, allegedly based on the
typical mid-day eating habits of a newspaper reporter.