deskfast

English

WOTD – 12 May 2012

Etymology

Blend of desk +‎ breakfast.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdeskfəst/

Noun

deskfast (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, Profile Books (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.

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