English Explanatory Dictionary

Weet-Bix

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A breakfast cereal sold in Australia and New Zealand, consisting of biscuits of compressed wholegrain flakes.
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  1. Alternative form of Weet-Bix.

Pronunciation

en-au-Weet-Bix.ogg

Word forms

Weet-Bix

Etymology

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

Related words

Weetabix wheat bisk

Derived words

have had one's Weet-Bix today
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