Well, there's no ONE suggested word, but there seems to be two. Macquarie and Oxford Dictionary list “brekky” and “
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.
/ (ˈbrɛkɪ) / noun. a slang word for breakfast.
In some parts of the United Kingdom (namely, the North of England, North and South Wales, 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 elsewhere people would call the midday meal lunch ...
brekky in British English
(ˈbrɛkɪ ) noun. a slang word for breakfast. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers.
Brekkie is a slang term, but the proper term is still breakfast. Then between breakfast and early afternoon, about eleven o'clock, you might have either brunch [an amalgamation of breakfast and lunch], or elevenses. Then there's lunch. Some people call it lunch, others call it dinner.
Traditionally, and for some people still, the meals are called: Breakfast - between 7:00 and 9:00, Dinner (The main meal) - between 12:00 and 1:30 p.m. Tea - anywhere from 5:30 at night to 6:30 p.m.
“High” tea
It combined snacks and a hearty meal and was usually served at about 6pm. This eventually evolved into the lower classes calling their midday meal “dinner” and their evening meal “tea”, while the upper classes called their midday meal “lunch” and referred to the evening meal as “dinner”.
I call them “breakfast,” “dinner,” and “tea.” But that's because I'm originally from the North of England and working class. In the South of the country, the same meals may be referred to as breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and the middle/upper classes would refer to the same meals as breakfast, lunch, and supper!
If you eat something for breakfast, you can do it effortlessly, and if you eat someone for breakfast, you can beat them easily.
They found that 74 per cent of Scots surveyed call their evening meal dinner. Only 19 per cent think it should be called tea while six per cent said it should be called supper. The findings set Scots apart from our neighbours in the north of England where the evening meal is often referred to as tea.
A nationwide study into our the eating habits of British people has settled an ongoing argument about what our evening meal should be called. Over half of Britons think that it should be called “dinner”, but one in 20 people describe it as “supper”.
According to the majority of British adults (54 percent), the last meal of the day should be called 'dinner'. In fact, only four in ten Britons still refer to it as "tea", while just one in twenty (5 percent) call it 'supper'.
Fish and Chips are probably the most popular British food known across the globe. Fish (cod) and chips (deep-fried) is one of the typical English meals that are typically served wrapped in paper with salt and malt vinegar.
Traditionally, Afternoon Tea is served around 4 pm. It was not created to replace dinner but rather to fill the gap between an early lunch and a late dinner. Small sandwiches, scones, biscuits, and tea were typically on small ornamental three-tier serving trays.
The top dishes in their rankings include: Fish and chips. Roast chicken. English breakfast.
brunch. The word “brunch” is a combination of the words “breakfast” and “lunch.” It is a meal eaten in the late morning, which replaces breakfast and lunch.
I'm peckish (British – means, a little hungry) I could eat a horse. I'm famished.
A 'piece' is generally a sandwich, regardless of filling. What the English might know as a 'chip butty' is known in Scotland as a 'chip piece' for example.
As may be expected, “dinner” was the overwhelmingly preferred term used in the South, while those in the North preferred to say “tea”.
PIECE. If it's in bread and if it has a filling of salad and/or meat, in Scotland it's known as a piece. AKA the Scottish word for a sandwich.