brekkie
Syllables: brek·kie/ˈbɹɛ.ki/
brekkie is the diminutive of breakfast.
Meaning of breakfast
Noun
breakfast (countable and uncountable, plural breakfasts)
- The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
- You should put more protein in her breakfast so she will grow.
- A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc.
- We serve breakfast all day.
- The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).
- A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting.
- The wolves will get a breakfast by my death.1684, John Dryden, “Amaryllis”, in Miscellany Poems
Forms of brekkie
| plural | brekkies |
|---|---|
| alternative form | brekky |
| alternative form | breakie |
| alternative form | breaky |
Origin of brekkie
Clipping of breakfast + -ie.
Words that rhyme with brekkie
Questions about brekkie
- What is brekkie the diminutive of?
- Brekkie is the diminutive of breakfast.
- How do you pronounce brekkie?
- Brekkie is pronounced /ˈbɹɛ.ki/.
Words near brekkie in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: brekkie (page history and authors); breakfast (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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