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sweetbread|ˈswiːtbrɛd|
(Also formerly as two words.)
[app. f. sweet a. + bread n., but the reason for the name is not obvious.]
1. The pancreas, or the thymus gland, of an animal, esp. as used for food (distinguished respectively as heart sweetbread, stomach sweetbread, or belly sweetbread and throat sweetbread, gullet sweetbread, or neck sweetbread): esteemed a delicacy.
1565Cooper Thesaurus, Animellæ, the sweete breade in a hogge. 1578Banister Hist. Man vii. 90 A certaine Glandulous part, called Thimus, which in Calues..is most pleasaunt to be eaten. I suppose we call it the sweete bread. 1598Chapman Iliad i. 458 [They] Cut off their thighes dubd with the fatte,..And pricke the sweetebreads thereupon. a1613Overbury A Wife, etc. (1630) L ij b, For an inward bruise, Lambstones and sweet-breads are his onely Sperma Ceti. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. xxx. (1663) 121 Some sell their pigs, and some again sell nothing but the chitterlings, the sweet-breads, the blood, and the haslets. 1791Boswell Johnson 9 May an. 1778, He gave her her choice of a chicken, [or] a sweetbread. 1797–8Lamb Ros. Gray xi. Wks. 1903 I. 26, I ordered my dinner—green peas and a sweetbread. 1824in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1825) 281 We've gullet-sweetbreads, veined with red. 1846A. Soyer Gastron. Regen. 681 If I cannot meet with heart sweetbreads, I in general satisfy myself with the throats. 1884G. Allen Philistia III. 156 Oysters, game, sweetbreads, red mullet, any little delicacy of that sort.
†2. A bribe, douceur. Obs. slang or colloq.
a1670Hacket Abp. Williams ii. (1693) 163, I obtain'd that of the fellow,..with a few Sweetbreads that I gave him out of my Purse. |