brekkern.
/ˈbrɛkə/ (University) slang.
Breakfast.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > breakfast or morning meal
forme-metea1175
breakfast1463
disjune1491
jentation1599
jenticulation1658
meat breakfast1728
English breakfast1773
déjeuner1787
dejeune1788
fork-breakfast1812
tea-breakfast1825
cooked breakfast1848
chota hazri1863
hunt-breakfast1877
petit déjeuner1879
brekker1889
brekkie1904
Continental breakfast1911
prayer breakfast1930
Oslo breakfast1937
fry1959
1889 in A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang
1900 G. Swift Somerley 66 Have you had any brekker?
1905 H. A. Vachell Hill xiv Scaife gave his farewell ‘brekker’ at the Creameries.
1908 Daily Chron. 20 Apr. 4/7 A young man who looked like an undergraduate wondered when his ‘brekker’ would be ready.
1928 D. L. Sayers Unpleasantness at Bellona Club xi. 129 He'd only that moment swallowed his brekker.
1965 J. P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono i. 9 I complained of an undesirable brekker kipper.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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