"deskfast" meaning in English

See deskfast in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈdɛskfəst/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-deskfast.wav Forms: deskfasts [plural]
Etymology: Blend of desk + breakfast. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|desk|breakfast}} Blend of desk + breakfast Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} deskfast (countable and uncountable, plural deskfasts)
  1. Breakfast eaten at work, particularly while sitting at a desk. Tags: countable, uncountable Related terms: al desko
    Sense id: en-deskfast-en-noun-VBg5EoQm Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSONL data for deskfast meaning in English (1.7kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "desk",
        "3": "breakfast"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of desk + breakfast",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of desk + breakfast.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "deskfasts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "deskfast (countable and uncountable, plural deskfasts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Joe Moran, Queuing for Beginners: The Story of Daily Life from Breakfast to Bedtime, Profile Books, published 2008, page 19",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Breakfast eaten at work, particularly while sitting at a desk."
      ],
      "id": "en-deskfast-en-noun-VBg5EoQm",
      "links": [
        [
          "Breakfast",
          "breakfast"
        ],
        [
          "eaten",
          "eaten"
        ],
        [
          "work",
          "work"
        ],
        [
          "desk",
          "desk"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "al desko"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdɛskfəst/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-deskfast.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cf/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-deskfast.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-deskfast.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cf/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-deskfast.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-deskfast.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "deskfast"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "desk",
        "3": "breakfast"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of desk + breakfast",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of desk + breakfast.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "deskfasts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "deskfast (countable and uncountable, plural deskfasts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "al desko"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English blends",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Joe Moran, Queuing for Beginners: The Story of Daily Life from Breakfast to Bedtime, Profile Books, published 2008, page 19",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Breakfast eaten at work, particularly while sitting at a desk."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Breakfast",
          "breakfast"
        ],
        [
          "eaten",
          "eaten"
        ],
        [
          "work",
          "work"
        ],
        [
          "desk",
          "desk"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdɛskfəst/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-deskfast.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cf/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-deskfast.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-deskfast.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cf/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-deskfast.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-deskfast.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "deskfast"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-29 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-20 using wiktextract (d4b8e84 and b863ecc). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.