Brekky: the first and most important meal of the day, Aussies call breakfast 'brekky'.
Macquarie and Oxford Dictionary list “brekky” and “brekkie” as the officially recognised forms. Q: So no “breaky”? A: Nope. After all, “breakfast” is the only word that makes that particular sound on a combination of “-eak”.
brekkie – breakfast
Although it sounds like breakfast for kids, brekkie is the Australian meal everyone has in the morning. So…
/ (ˈbrɛkɪ) / noun. a slang word for breakfast.
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Or perhaps you spell it breaky or even breakie? Whichever way, that's breakfast. The most important meal of the day.
that Australians use for food. You will hear this word used a lot in more in country towns compared to the city. “I'm really hungry, I can't wait to get some tucker.”
Australians use a couple of other colloquial words for a hen's egg. The Australian English word googie or goog is an informal term that dates from the 1880s. It derives from British dialect goggy, a child's word for an egg. A closer parallel to the jocular bum nut, however, is the word cackleberry.
Brekky: the first and most important meal of the day, Aussies call breakfast 'brekky'.
Breakfast: This is also called brekkie by some but not common. Breakfast is usually the same everywhere though the contents of breakfast will vary hugely. Both Britain and Ireland are famous for their cooked breakfast which is known as "full" or "cooked" breakfast.
(informal) A breakfast.
The reports reveals a number of reasons why people sometimes skip breakfast, with the main ones being that they don't feel like eating first thing in the morning (with 65 per cent of participants citing this as a reason), being disorganised (49 per cent) and sleeping in (40 per cent).
Lunch – eaten around 12 – 2 pm is usually a light meal such as a sandwich, or salad. However, with the vast array of choices available now Australians are just as likely to have curry, noodles, sushi or pizza for lunch. Dinner – the main meal of the day is eaten in the evening.
Definition of 'brekky'
The traditional Australian breakfast is very similar, unsurprisingly, to a typical British or American breakfast, with a whole fry-up made up of smokey bacon, eggs in various ways, grilled mushrooms, and tomatoes, with the optional addition of hash browns, beans, pork or beef sausages.
In most of the United Kingdom (namely, the North of England, North and South Wales, the English Midlands, Scotland, and some rural and working class areas of Northern Ireland), people traditionally call their midday meal dinner and their evening meal tea (served around 6 pm), whereas the upper social classes would call ...
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Contributor's comments: In Central Qld we still call Lunch "Dinner" and Dinner "Tea". Also, morning and afternoon tea is "Smoko". Contributor's comments: This was the same for me growing up in the sixties in SW WA.
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