![]() ![]() Old English brecan "to divide solid matter violently into parts or fragments to injure, violate (a promise, etc.), destroy, curtail to break into, rush into to burst forth, spring out to subdue, tame" (class IV strong verb past tense bræc, past participle brocen), from Proto-Germanic *brekanan (source also of Old Frisian breka, Dutch breken, Old High German brehhan, German brechen, Gothic brikan), from PIE root *bhreg- "to break."Ĭlosely related to breach (n.), brake (n.1), brick (n.). The long/short vowel contrast in break/breakfast represents a common pattern where words from Old English have a long vowel in their modern form but a short vowel as the first element of a compound: Christ/Christmas, holy/holiday, moon/Monday, sheep/shepherd, wild/wilderness, etc. Greek ariston in Homer and Herodotus was a meal at the break of day but in classical times taken in the afternoon. In common with almuerzo, words for "breakfast" tend over time to shift in meaning toward "lunch " compare French déjeuner "breakfast," later "lunch" (cognate of Spanish desayuno "breakfast"), from Vulgar Latin *disieiunare "to breakfast," from Latin dis- "apart, in a different direction from" + ieiunare, jejunare "fast" (see jejune also compare dine). German Frühstück is from Middle High German vruostücke, literally "early bit." Spanish almuerzo "lunch," but formerly and still locally "breakfast," is from Latin admorsus, past participle of admordere "to bite into," from ad "to" + mordēre "to bite" (see mordant). An Old English word for it was undernmete (see undern), also morgenmete "morning meal." Pasta, noodles, curry or pizza – all of which I'm guilty of breakfasting on – had never passed their lips."first meal of the day," mid-15c., from the verbal phrase see break (v.) + fast (n.). 'Miss Johnson, with whom I dined at the White Hart Inn, Fetter Lane, was personally acquainted with Burns who, breakfasting with her, drank a large tumbler of beer previous to taking either eatables or tea, saying that he had been up till three in the morning, and had drank too much wine. One morning as they were breakfasting, they glimpsed “an apparition,” as Jane put it, “a buxom girl, very sexy in a tight black satin dress and black satin high-heeled shoes, with long red fingernails, plus a high Pompadour hairdo.”Ī few years ago, in the early morning mist at a municipal garbage dump near Tamazula, two hours drive south of Lake Chapala, there were so many black vultures spreading their wings and breakfasting that a group of Canadian ecotourists in my charge stood and stared in a mixture of wonderment and fear.ĭid you know? Mexico's vultures have very different eating habits. How Britain fell in love with breakfast 2012 ![]() My mother certainly dreamed of something similar and openly fantasised about which one of the children she could have adopted in order to make room for nine feet of MFI'd speckled faux-granite laminate and four tall stools, on which she could perch breakfasting on peach Ski yoghurt, drinking Mellow Bird's with Carnation evaporated milk and being, in a lot of ways like Heather Locklear from Dynasty, but living in Currock, Carlisle. Miss Johnson clearly enjoyed meeting labouring-class poets: see Letter 75 for the anecdote she told Bloomfield about breakfasting with Burns. Peters to keep it private, even from his own family, for a few days. Williams, under the notion of breakfasting with me next Thursday morning, since you won’t have it sooner and there will nobody else be wanting and I will beg of Mr. Peters, who wants to see my little chapel, to assist Mr. Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Samuel Richardson 1725 ![]() Williams, under the notion of breakfasting with me next Thursday morning, since you won't have it sooner and there will nobody else be wanting and I will beg of Mr. ![]() He dismissed with indignation the idea of breakfasting on a roll, and bacon and eggs were added unto him. ![]()
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