brekker

And I could do with a bit of brekker too."

"Then, after my brekker, I'm going to go and shoot the coon.

"Brekker first," he said, "anyhow," stroking the kitten on his shoulder.

Brekker, breakker or brekkers (for breakfast) is a coinage from the 1880s still in occasional use.

'It's a sad thing,' he said, 'the way that the 'Varsity breakfast - "brekker" we used to call it in my day - is dying out.

Angel appeared on the bridge, bearing a huge tray, and the saliva jetted from under Nick's tongue as he smelled I did a little special for your brekker, Skipper/ said Angel.

But it felt more normal at Ashdown - the only girl playing rugby and cricket against a boys' team, or doing military drill and Greek before brekker - than it did anywhere else I'd ever known.