Wheaties

See also: wheaties

English

Etymology

Diminutive plural from wheat +‎ -ie +‎ -s.

Proper noun

Wheaties

1. A manufactured breakfast cereal made of a wheat and bran mixture baked into flakes.
   • 1993, Marcus Miller, edited by Tom Mulhern, Bass Heroes, Backbeat Books, page 34:

     Sometimes when I'm feeling my Wheaties, I want to be the one to go out and experiment, and I expect the drummer to help me by keeping it down.

   • 2005, Christopher Kennedy Lawford, Symptoms of Withdrawal, William Morrow and Co., page 159:

     Drugs were my Wheaties. My breakfast of champions. They made me feel fortified.

   • 2006, Stephenson Humphries-Brooks, Cinematic Savior, Greenwood Publishing Group, page 79:

     For the first time in the history of the Cinematic Jesus, the traditional barriers that relegated Catholic sensibilities to European-produced films, for example, Il vangelo Matteo (1966), are removed, and Catholic piety becomes as mainstream as Wheaties.

Derived terms

• eat one's Wheaties

Anagrams

• White Sea