sunbake

Etymology

From sun + bake.

sunbake means A session of sunbathing. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 90 out of 100.

noun

A session of sunbathing.“It was a simple affair. We were camping down the south coast and one of my friends leapt out of the surf and slammed down onto the beach to have a sunbake – marvellous. We made the image and it's been around, I suppose as a sort of icon of the Australian way of life.”

verb

To bake in the sun.“Oh, she wants to moan with pain, thinking of Richard lying down on the sunbaking rock, naked as well.”
To sunbathe.“Such diversion as Podson could extort from his isolation was soon vitiated by repetition. He surfed. He sun-baked - with discretion till his skin had peeled and given him a harder cuticle.”