different between breakfast vs brinner

English

Etymology

From Middle English brekefast, brekefaste, equivalent to break +? fast (literally, "to end the nightly fast"), likely a variant of Old English fæstenbry?e, (literally, "fast-breach"). Cognate with Dutch breekvasten (“breakfast”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??kf?st/
• (meal eaten after religious fasting): also IPA^(key): /?b?e?k?fæst/

Noun

breakfast (countable and uncountable, plural breakfasts)

1. The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.

   You should put more protein in her breakfast so she will grow.

   • 1591, Shakespeare, Henry VI, part 2, act 1:

     a sorry breakfast for my lord protector
2. (by extension) A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc.

   We serve breakfast all day.

3. The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).
4. (largely obsolete outside religion) A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting.
   • c. 1693?, John Dryden, Amaryllis

     The wolves will get a breakfast by my death.

Usage notes

• In the sense "meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting", the word is more often spelled break-fast or break fast; it is also often pronounced differently.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Afrikaans: brekfis
• ? Irish: bricfeasta
• ? Maori: parakuihi
• ? Scottish Gaelic: bracaist
• ? Welsh: brecwast

Translations

See also

• brunch
• jentacular

Verb

breakfast (third-person singular simple present breakfasts, present participle breakfasting, simple past and past participle breakfasted)

1. (intransitive) To eat the morning meal.
   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, 1st edition, volume II, chapter I, page 12

     "Oh, he set off the moment he had breakfasted! […] "

   • May 14, 1689, Matthew Prior, epistle to Fleetwood Shephard Esq.

     First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast.

2. (transitive) To serve breakfast to.

Synonyms

• break one's fast

Translations

Anagrams

• fast break, fastbreak

English

Etymology

Blend of breakfast +? dinner, on the pattern of brunch.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?n?(?)

Noun

brinner (countable and uncountable, plural brinners)

1. (humorous slang) A meal consisting of a fusion of breakfast (first meal upon awakening) and dinner.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:brinner.

Synonyms

• brupper (humorous slang)

See also

• brunch
• linner
• lupper

Swedish

Verb

brinner

1. present tense of brinna.