Weet-bix

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A breakfast cereal sold in Australia and New Zealand, consisting of biscuits of compressed wholegrain flakes. Australia, New-Zealand, South-Africa

    "1995, Dave Warner, City of Light, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, page 320, While my Weet-bix soaked, I learned why from morning radio. Premier Malcolm was thought to be on the verge of tendering his resignation."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of Weet-Bix. alt-of, alternative

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"1995, Dave Warner, City of Light, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, page 320, While my Weet-bix soaked, I learned why from morning radio. Premier Malcolm was thought to be on the verge of tendering his resignation."

Etymology

A deliberate alteration of wheat + biscuit. A trademark owned by Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing Company, used in Australian English from the 1920s onwards.

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