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white-bread, a. colloq. (orig. and chiefly N. Amer.). Freq. depreciative.
Brit. |ˈwʌɪtbrɛd|, U.S. |ˈ(h)waɪtˌbrɛd|
[‹ white bread n., with allusion to its colour and perceived blandness, and perhaps also punningly after ‘white bred’.]
Of, belonging to, or representative of the (North American) white middle-classes; bourgeois; (hence) strait-laced, conventional; bland or innocuous.
1977Newsweek 3 Oct. 60 He [sc. Richard Pryor] walked off the Aladdin Hotel stage in Las Vegas, fed up with doing ‘white bread’ humor. 1979TV Guide 13 Jan. 30/2 The contrast between his white-bread liberalism and the boys' ghetto wit is the basis of all the comedy in Diff'rent Strokes. 1988‘Dr. Dre’ et al. Fuck Tha Police (song) in L. A. Stanley Rap: the Lyrics (1992) 238 The jury has found you guilty of being a red-neck, white-bread chicken-shit motherfucker. 1991D. Coupland Generation X ii. xiv. 74 He's our age, and Biff-and-Muffy private schoolish like Claire's brother Allan, and from some eastern white bread ghetto: New Rochelle? Shaker Heights? 1996Q Jan. 148/2 Perhaps too feisty for the currently booming Easy Listening sector, but ultimately too white bread to really grasp the lapels, this Nashville-recorded LP from 1969 is an agreeable thing nonetheless. 2000Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 19 May 19/2, I find these white-bread whingers all a bit much. |