wakey wakey, eggs and bakey

9.9

A fun call to wake someone up for breakfast when eggs or bacon are ready

idiom

: ¡despierta, que ya hay desayuno!

When the smell of cooking drifted upstairs, Dad called out, 'wakey wakey, eggs and bakey!'

Examples

She woke her brother with a cheerful shout of wakey wakey, eggs and bakey before breakfast.
His mom always says wakey wakey, eggs and bakey to get him out of bed on weekends.
It's time for breakfast! Wakey wakey, eggs and bakey!
I love saying wakey wakey, eggs and bakey to my kids in the morning.
His mom always says wakey wakey, eggs and bakey to get him out of bed on weekends.
She woke her brother with a cheerful shout of wakey wakey, eggs and bakey before breakfast.
When the smell of cooking drifted upstairs, Dad called out, 'wakey wakey, eggs and bakey!'

Synonyms

to rise and shine

vswakey wakey, eggs and bakey

Informal

34 3.9

To wake up and start the day with energy

uses playful breakfast imagery rather than a general energetic morning call

wakey

vswakey wakey, eggs and bakey

9 9.9

To tell someone to wake up

uses playful breakfast humor to get someone up in the morning

Surface Forms

wakey wakey main

Morphology

wakey + wakey, + egg + and + bakey

The core wake-up function is directly signalled by the repeated interjection 'wakey', which a B1 learner who knows 'wakey' will recognise. However 'eggs and bakey' is a playful, rhyming nonce phrase (with 'bakey' not a standard word) whose reference to breakfast foods is inferable from context but not strictly compositional, so the overall expression is only partially predictable.

Etymology

Wakey wakey, eggs and bakey comes from a playful rhyme people say when breakfast is ready. Hearing eggs and bakey and the sing-song wakey wakey makes someone want to get out of bed, so the line came to mean 'wake up' in a friendly way.