weet-bix
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.88 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A breakfast cereal sold in Australia and New Zealand, consisting of biscuits of compressed wholegrain flakes.
Australian usage; New Zealand usage
name
Alternative form of Weet-Bix.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "“This is my breakfast in Australia.[…]”[…]Siri soaked his Weet-bix with kiri-hodi and ate it. Siri′s mother tried it plain."
- "I′m so nervous at breakfast, I accidentally pour apple juice over my Weet-Bix, not milk. I eat it anyway. It tastes sweet and chewy. I should write to the Sanitarium Health Food Company with my serving suggestion. Call it, ‘Weet-Bix Surprise’."
Etymology
A deliberate alteration of wheat + biscuit. A trademark owned by Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing Company, used in Australian English from the 1920s onwards.
Usage
Phrases
have had one's Weet-Bix today
wheat bisk