deskfast

English

WOTD – 12 May 2012

Etymology

Blend of desk +‎ breakfast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛskfəst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

deskfast (countable and uncountable, plural deskfasts)

1. Breakfast eaten at work, particularly while sitting at a desk.
   • 2007, Joe Moran, Queuing for Beginners: The Story of Daily Life from Breakfast to Bedtime‎^[1], Profile Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 19:

     The default deskfast, the cereal bar, arrived in Britain from America in the late 1990s and within five years accounted for about a fifth of the total breakfast cereal market.

See also

• al desko