Brekker
/ˈbrɛkər/noun
An informal regional term for breakfast, especially in Australian and New Zealand English.
Did you know?Brekker is part of a wider family of playful breakfast forms—including “brekkie”—created by shortening and reshaping the compound “breakfast,” whose original meaning was literally the meal that breaks the overnight fast.
Etymological Timeline
Old English
Old English
breakan
“To break, shatter, or make a division”
Old English
Old English
fæstan
“To fast or abstain from food”
15th Century
English
brekefast
“The first meal after the overnight fast”
19th Century
Australian/New Zealand English
breakfast
“The morning meal, often shortened in informal speech”
20th Century
Australian/New Zealand English
brekkie / brekker
“Playful informal forms of “breakfast””
Modern English
English
brekker
“A regional slang term for breakfast”