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full Irish breakfast

full Irish breakfast noun: a full breakfast usually including some combination of soda bread/farl, boxty, black pudding and white pudding.

Noun

full Irish breakfast (plural full Irish breakfasts)

  1. A full breakfast usually including some combination of soda bread/farl, boxty, black pudding and white pudding.
    • Brenda's full Irish Breakfast includes homemade black and white pudding.1996, Frank Sullivan, Fran Sullivan, The Irish Bed and Breakfast Book, Pelican Publishing, →ISBN
    • I should disclose at this point that there is, of course, a full Irish breakfast, one that my friends in Dublin claim was the very first and that the English stole from them.2010 September 2, Albert Jack, What Caesar Did For My Salad: The Secret Meanings of our Favourite Dishes, Penguin UK, →ISBN

Examples of full Irish breakfast in a sentence

  • Boxty is often served alongside a full Irish breakfast of eggs, bacon, sausage, black pudding, toast, and tomato slices.2014 March 18, Foodspotting, The Foodspotting Field Guide, Chronicle Books, →ISBN:
  • The first place we filmed in Ireland was a breakfast place, and the one thing they didn't have was a Full Irish Breakfast.2022 October 18, Phil Rosenthal, Jenn Garbee, Somebody Feed Phil the Book: Untold Stories, Behind-the-Scenes Photos and Favorite Recipes: A...

Forms of full Irish breakfast

pluralfull Irish breakfasts

Questions about full Irish breakfast

What does full Irish breakfast mean?
Full Irish breakfast means a full breakfast usually including some combination of soda bread/farl, boxty, black pudding and white pudding.
How do you use full Irish breakfast in a sentence?
Boxty is often served alongside a full Irish breakfast of eggs, bacon, sausage, black pudding, toast, and tomato slices.
What part of speech is full Irish breakfast?
Full Irish breakfast is a noun.
What is the plural of full Irish breakfast?
The plural of full Irish breakfast is full Irish breakfasts.

Words near full Irish breakfast in the dictionary

  1. full houses
  2. full immersion
  3. full infinitive
  4. full infinitives
  5. full Irish
  6. full Irish breakfast
  7. full Irish breakfasts
  8. full Irishes
  9. full join
  10. full joins
  11. full kit wanker

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