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brekkie

Syllables: brek·kie/ˈbɹɛ.ki/

brekkie is the diminutive of breakfast.

Meaning of breakfast

Noun

breakfast (countable and uncountable, plural breakfasts)

  1. The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
    • You should put more protein in her breakfast so she will grow.
  2. (broadly) A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc.
    • We serve breakfast all day.
  3. The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).
  4. (largely obsolete outside religion) 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

See all 6 meanings of breakfast

Forms of brekkie

pluralbrekkies
alternative formbrekky
alternative formbreakie
alternative formbreaky

Origin of brekkie

Clipping of breakfast + -ie.

Words that rhyme with brekkie

9 more rhymesFewer rhymes

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

  1. Brekhuses
  2. Brekke
  3. brekker
  4. brekkers
  5. Brekkes
  6. brekkie
  7. brekkies
  8. brekky
  9. breks
  10. BRELA
  11. brelan

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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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