Why this word is great
NOONING — [Noun] A rest or meal taken at midday. From noon (from Old English nōn, originally the ninth hour of the day from sunrise, approximately 3 p.m., later shifting to midday) + -ing (suffix forming nouns from verbs, here indicating an action or its result). Unlike "lunch," which narrows to the meal alone, or "siesta," which implies a surrender to afternoon sleep, nooning denotes the entire, deliberate cessation—a temporal shelter claimed at the day's pivot point. It is the creak of a wagon wheel stilled under a lone cottonwood, the unwrapping of bread and cheese on a checkered cloth, the farmhand swallowing cool water from a tin cup in the barn's deep shadow; a brief, earned armistice with labor before the long tilt toward evening.