Weet-Bix

proper noun

A breakfast cereal sold in Australia and New Zealand, consisting of biscuits of compressed wholegrain flakes.

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Weet-Bix1

proper noun

alternative Weet-bix

  1. AustraliaNew ZealandSouth AfricaA breakfast cereal sold in Australia and New Zealand, consisting of biscuits of compressed wholegrain flakes.

    1995, Dave Warner, City of Light, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, page 320, While my Weet-bix soaked, I learned why from morning radio. Premier Malcolm was thought to be on the verge of tendering his resignation.

    2 more examples

    “This is my breakfast in Australia.[…]”[…]Siri soaked his Weet-bix with kiri-hodi and ate it. Siri′s mother tried it plain.

    2002, Sunil Govinage, The Black Australian: Black Swans and Other Stories, page 25

    I′m so nervous at breakfast, I accidentally pour apple juice over my Weet-Bix, not milk. I eat it anyway. It tastes sweet and chewy. I should write to the Sanitarium Health Food Company with my serving suggestion. Call it, ‘Weet-Bix Surprise’.

    2009, Steven Herrick, Rhyming Boy, ReadHowYouWant, page 148

Weet-bix2

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Weet-Bix.

Origin

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

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APA

Weet-Bix. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Weet-Bix

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Chicago

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