Etymology

Weet-Bix

Today it means: A breakfast cereal sold in Australia and New Zealand, consisting of biscuits of compressed wholegrain flakes. Full definition →

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The story

A deliberate alteration of wheat + biscuit. A trademark owned by Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing Company, used in Australian English from the 1920s onwards.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.