"Weet-Bix" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "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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        {
          "word": "have had one's Weet-Bix today"
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          "text": "1995, Dave Warner, City of Light, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, page 320,\nWhile my Weet-bix soaked, I learned why from morning radio. Premier Malcolm was thought to be on the verge of tendering his resignation."
        },
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          "ref": "2002, Sunil Govinage, The Black Australian: Black Swans and Other Stories, page 25:",
          "text": "“This is my breakfast in Australia.[…]”[…]Siri soaked his Weet-bix with kiri-hodi and ate it. Siri′s mother tried it plain.",
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          "ref": "2009, Steven Herrick, Rhyming Boy, ReadHowYouWant, page 148:",
          "text": "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’.",
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        "A breakfast cereal sold in Australia and New Zealand, consisting of biscuits of compressed wholegrain flakes."
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        "(Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) A breakfast cereal sold in Australia and New Zealand, consisting of biscuits of compressed wholegrain flakes."
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          "word": "Weetabix"
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        {
          "word": "wheat bisk"
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          "text": "1995, Dave Warner, City of Light, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, page 320,\nWhile my Weet-bix soaked, I learned why from morning radio. Premier Malcolm was thought to be on the verge of tendering his resignation."
        },
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