breakfast-mate

noun

Etymology

From breakfast + -mate.

  1. inherited from fæstenbryċe
  2. inherited from brekefast
  3. suffixed as breakfast-mate — “breakfast + mate

Definitions

  1. Someone with whom one eats breakfast.

    • Elijah tore off a mouthful of toast, put the rest down, and looked at his breakfast-mates.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for breakfast-mate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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