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dingo's breakfast

dingo's breakfast noun: no breakfast at all.

Noun

dingo's breakfast

  1. (Australia, slang) No breakfast at all.
    • ' Here's yer dinner,' he said, adding with a wink 'I already had me breakfast ' 'What was that?' 'Dingo's breakfast. A piss and a look around.'1965, K. McKeney, Hide-Away Man, page 101
    • Some had a 'dingo's breakfast': a piss, a fart and a good look around.2007, Bernie Matthews, Intractable, page 132
  2. (Australia, slang) Nothing, especially in a situation where there should be something.
    • 'You'll get that ache,' she used to say, tapping her fingers in the hollow of my bony ten-year-old ribcage, 'a sort of tightness in the middle of your chest, just behind your breastbone. Don't go fobbing it off as indigestion, my girl—it's your internal barometer warning you that you're about to...2013, Anna Romer, Thornwood House
    • "A real 'dinkum Bushie' doesn't give a dingo's breakfast where he sleeps,” said Eddy and the thick lacing of spider's web on the roof of the veranda didn't bother him either.2015, Susan Duxbury, Up the Gum Tree, page 153

Examples of dingo's breakfast in a sentence

  • The next day, after an early dingo's breakfast, which consists only of water, we headed out to chase down the elusive swine.2016, Matt Chadwick, Dirt Classroom, page 39:
  • Don't go fobbing it off as indigestion, my girl—it's your internal barometer warning you that you're about to make a dingo's breakfast out of your life.'2013, Anna Romer, Thornwood House:

Synonyms of dingo's breakfast

Origin of dingo's breakfast

From dingo + -'s + breakfast. First use appears c. 1965 in the writings of K. McKenney.

Questions about dingo's breakfast

What does dingo's breakfast mean?
Dingo's breakfast means no breakfast at all.
How do you use dingo's breakfast in a sentence?
The next day, after an early dingo's breakfast, which consists only of water, we headed out to chase down the elusive swine.
What part of speech is dingo's breakfast?
Dingo's breakfast is a noun.

Words near dingo's breakfast in the dictionary

  1. dingo fences
  2. dingo fish
  3. Dingo Forest
  4. dingo stiffener
  5. dingo stiffeners
  6. dingo's breakfast
  7. dingo-fish
  8. dingo-proof
  9. dingo-stiffener
  10. dingo-stiffeners
  11. dingoed

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