bread and buttern.adj.

Brit.

/ˌbrɛd (ə)n(d) ˈbʌtə/, U.S.

/ˌbrɛd (ə)n ˈbədər/

Forms: see bread n., and conj.¹, adv., and n.¹, and butter n.¹; also Welsh English 1900s– brem butter.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bread n., and conj.¹, butter n.¹

Etymology: < bread n. + and conj.¹ + butter n.¹

A. n.

a. Bread spread with butter.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > bread with spread or filling > [noun] > bread with butter, jam, or other spread

bread and butter1533

butterham1713

butter toast1757

tartine1804

butty1827

punk and plaster1891

thunder and lightning1905

cinnamon toast1927

jam-butty1927

1533 T. More 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere iv. p. cii As it were a babe that wepeth and waxeth angry wyth the kyghte, for catchynge awaye hys brede and butter.

1629 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime iii. 15 Euery one hath..a peece of bread and butter, and beere as pleaseth him.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 323. ¶6 Eat a slice of Bread and Butter, drank a Dish of Bohea.

1883 E. P. Roe in Harper's Mag. Dec. 50/2 She likes bread and butter and kindred realities of our matter-of-fact sphere.

1955 J. P. Donleavy Ginger Man xix. 213 Sitting, facing one another across the white table. Bacon and eggs, tea, bread and butter. Yummy.

2001 B. Neels Always & Forever ii. 27 He was taking great bites from a thick slice of bread and butter.

b. English regional or nonstandard. As a count noun: a piece of bread and butter.

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1836 W. D. Cooper Gloss. Provinc. Sussex 14 Bread and butters, slices of bread and butter.

1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 54 I well remember the disgust we children felt at a lady..who always said a bread and butter, where we used a piece of bread and butter.

2009 @ThisNyght 15 Oct. in twitter.com (accessed 12 Feb. 2020) Bout to start class and the only thing I've eaten is a bread and butter and a coke..what a meal huh?

2. slang. Following a possessive. A matter which one has the right to express an opinion on, involve oneself in, etc.; = business n. 16b. Only in negative and interrogative constructions, esp. it's no bread and butter of mine (also yours, theirs, etc.). Now rare.In quot. 2019 in a work of historical fiction.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > indifference > [phrase] > none of one's business

it's no bread and butter of mine (also yours, theirs, etc.)1687

1687 J. Phillips tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote ii. iii. xxxiii. 452 Whether that Country Wench were Madam Dulcinea or no, is no Bread and Butter of mine; I shall neither be the better nor worse for it.

1741 J. Swift in Lett. Dr. Swift 175 Even the common proverb teacheth you this, when we say, it is none of my bread and butter; meaning it is no business of mine.

1755 D. Bradstreet Magician, or Bottle-conjurer ii. v. in Life & Uncommon Adventures 269 What have you to do with it; is it any Bread and Butter of yours?

1833 A. Greene Life & Adv. D. Duckworth I. xii. 150 ‘Your mother's a fool.’ ‘Well, that's none of my bread and butter.’

1865 Goulburn (New S. Wales) Herald & Chron. 27 May It doesn't look right, somehow; but it aint no bread-and-butter of mine, anyway; so I think I'll just go and have another pint.

2019 E. Quinn Marquis She's been waiting For (e-book ed.) Yet if that was the case, why would Dursley's sister be assisting her? Not that it was any bread and butter of his.

a. Ordinary or everyday food or sustenance. Hence also: a person's means of earning this, a livelihood; work (esp. of an everyday, routine type) which provides an income; (also) something which provides a basic or primary source of income.

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society > occupation and work > [noun] > regular occupation, trade, or profession > livelihood

lifeOE

foodOE

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livingc1330

ploughc1390

purchasec1475

daily bread1526

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livelihead1590

thrive1592

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subsistence1644

gain1655

bread and butter1691

through-bearing1705

bread1719

bread ticket1801

daily1817

lifehood1823

rice bowl1853

crust1916

1691 T. D'Urfey Love for Money v. iii. 55 I wish I had been married sooner for my part, for I begin to love Mr. Semibrief since we bedded, better than my bread and butter by half.

1770 T. Bridges Adventures of Bank-note I. xvi. 144 The affair was so serious a matter, that nothing less than three parts out of four of a gentleman's bread and butter depended upon it.

1873 M. C. Ames Ten Years in Washington xxx. 304 The lower stories of the Treasury are filled with airy apartments, in which privileged mortals serve their country and earn their bread and butter.

1952 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 239/1 I reckon that about 3,000,000 folk would have to look elsewhere for their bread and butter if there were no trawlermen—or fish.

2013 Daily Tel. 16 Sept. 23/3 Best sellers are a bookshop's bread and butter.

b. A basic, ordinary, or routine part of something.In quot. 1891 as part of an extended metaphor.

ΚΠ

1891 Chautauquan Apr. 64/2 Take as an illustration those schools where some pitiful school-reader is the ‘bread and butter’ of the work and the classic only a rare condiment; the school-reader the standard, and Shakspere or Homer only a ‘supplementary reader’.

1900 Musical Times Apr. 304/2 The ‘bread and butter’ of the exercises used are those contained in Sir George Martin's ‘Choir boy training’ primer.

1994 N.Y. Times 7 Aug. ii. 28/5 Madness and depressive pining for a dead lover are the bread and butter of early Romantic opera and song.

2001 Time 20 Aug. 63/1 I've been a programmer for 10 years, and this is the kind of thing you have to do all the time... Interoperability, reverse engineering—this is our bread and butter.

4. Originally U.S. A letter sent to thank a person for his or her hospitality.The fuller form bread-and-butter letter is more usual (see bread-and-butter letter n. at Compounds).

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the mind > emotion > gratitude > [noun] > thanks > letter of

bread-and-butter letter1891

Collins1904

bread and butter1911

society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > letter of thanks for hospitality

bread-and-butter letter1891

roofer1902

Collins1904

bread and butter1911

roofer letter1937

1911 Youth's Compan. 12 Oct. 518/4 I was foolish to put a ban on their bread-and-butters. What will the rest of the week be without hearing from them?

1964 E. Bowen Little Girls iii. i. 164 Rude? Should have written a bread-and-butter?

1998 D. F. Sutton Let. 7 Oct. in R. Dutton & J. E. Howard Compan. Shakespeare's Wks. (2003) II. iii. 68 A ‘bread and butter’ written to Lord Ellesmere, Keeper of the Privy Seal, in 1596.

B. adj. In attributive use. Frequently hyphenated.

1. Of a person: girlish, schoolgirlish; (sometimes more generally) childish; used depreciatively, with implication of naive or unsophisticated character. In later use esp. in bread and butter miss. Also: designating the period of girlhood or boyhood. Now rare.With allusion to bread and butter being a food frequently eaten by children.In quot. 1979 in a work of historical fiction.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > child > [adjective] > relating to childhood

childhood1600

bread and buttera1625

early1630

prepubertal1858

preschool1879

pre-intellectual1891

preadolescent1904

pre-kindergarten1912

prepuberal1913

pre-teen1929

prepubic1932

a1625 J. Fletcher Humorous Lieut. iii. vii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Rrr4/1 Ye bread and butter rogues, do ye run from me?

1807 Salmagundi 2 June 211 These little beardless bread and butter politicians.

1861 A. Trollope Barchester Towers xli A lady at any rate past the wishy-washy bread-and-butter period of life.

1914 Theatre May 241/1 Whether our girls at the bread-and-butter age are particularly rude, I am not prepared to say.

1932 J. L. Mitchell tr. H. Mann Blue Angel ix. 150 ‘Quite a bread-and-butter miss, isn't she?’ remarked Kiepert, taking it with great good-humour.

1979 ‘G. Cullingford’ If Wishes were Hearses (e-book ed.) Don't be a prig, Caro. You really are a bread and butter miss.

a. Relating to or concerned with everyday needs and issues; ordinary; mundane, humdrum. In later use also: basic, fundamental, very important.

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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > of high or great importance

worthlyeOE

mickleeOE

greatc1225

right hand?c1225

solemna1387

materialc1475

superior1526

grand1542

weighty1558

main1581

pregnant1591

pregnate1598

materious1611

moliminous1642

momentous1656

magic1696

all-important1748

big1748

eventful1756

colossal1775

bread and butter1822

bada1825

key1832

all-absorbing1834

earth-moving?1834

earth-shaking1835

earth-shatteringa1859

high-ranking1874

beaucoup1917

major league1951

earth-stopping1956

crucial1957

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or ordinary

commona1325

naturalc1390

ordinarc1400

ordinary?a1425

ilk-day's1488

naturely?c1510

famous1528

familiar1533

vulgar1553

workaday1554

modern1591

tralatitious1653

commonish1792

workday1808

everyday1813

bread and butter1822

normal1843

common-seeming1857

tralatician1893

wake-a-day1893

1822 H. Ainslie Pilgrimage to Land of Burns 74 It [sc. the clock] rang like a greeting peal, while the measured quantum of its strokes raised up pleasant bread and butter scenes.

1894 L. Palmer Where Honour Leads xii. 214 It is strange..how some men are born to events, while others, from cradle to grave, lead such humdrum bread-and-butter lives.

1991 Baseball Illustrated 27 66/2 The power hitter remains the bread and butter player of any team.

2001 K. Fearon & A. Verlaque Lurgan Champagne & Other Tales 112 It's a pity that the bread and butter issues that were important for ordinary people, like health and education, didn't get the airtime that they should have.

b. Providing a primary or dependable source of income; relied on for income.

ΚΠ

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) I. i. 6 By the Germans, the latter [i.e. the professional or lucrative sciences] are usually distinguished as the Brodwissenschaften, which we may translate, ‘The Bread and Butter sciences’.

1926 Travel Nov. 48/1 List books, bread and butter books, books which sell on a gradual curve, over a long period of years—these are the bone and sinew of any sound publishing enterprise.

1972 W. Fadiman Hollywood Now 72 The film that draws large audiences and consequently large profits, the bread-and-butter film, is the lifeblood of Hollywood.

2002 Cathedral Music Oct. 12/1 The music of the Minster has taken up much of my life but I have always needed a ‘bread and butter’ job and for many years I taught at schools in the area.

Phrases

to quarrel with one's bread and butter: to act against one's own (esp. financial) interests. Now somewhat rare.

ΚΠ

1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 17 I won't quarrel with my Bread and Butter for all that: I know when I'm well.

1884 Harper's Mag. Dec. 92/2 Industries were not so plenty..that men could afford lightly to quarrel with their bread and butter.

1919 Bankers' Monthly Mar. 51/1 This is no time for us to quarrel with our bread and butter by talking of embargoes on exports of anything that we have to sell.

1955 A. L. Rowse Diary 28 Dec. (2004) 198 I have been incredibly careful, over here, not to quarrel with my bread and butter—partly because the audience is so warmly appreciative.

Compounds

bread-and-butter letter n. originally U.S. a letter sent to thank a person for his or her hospitality; cf. sense A. 4.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > gratitude > [noun] > thanks > letter of

bread-and-butter letter1891

Collins1904

bread and butter1911

society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > letter of thanks for hospitality

bread-and-butter letter1891

roofer1902

Collins1904

bread and butter1911

roofer letter1937

1891 Chautauquan Dec. 344/1 There is seldom more for a visitor to do than to arrange the flowers for the hostess, to send her a ‘bread and butter’ letter when one has left her house, and a present on Christmas.

1927 Scribner's Mag. July 80/2 He was the solemn sort who always writes his bread-and-butter letters the day after he has finished a visit.

2012 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 4 June 16 Today's event is a thoroughly modern take on the royal picnic. Let's hope that all 10,000 guests remember to write their bread-and-butter letters.

bread-and-butter pickle n. North American (in plural or as a mass noun) a sweet pickle made from sliced cucumber pickled in seasoned brine, typically eaten on sandwiches. [Apparently so called because originally eaten just with bread and butter.]

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1923 Orange Judd Farmer (Chicago) 1 Sept. 14/1 Bread and Butter Pickles. 1 doz. medium size cucumbers. 4 large onions, 1 quart vinegar, 2 cups light brown sugar, 1 teaspoon mustard seed, 1 teaspoon celery seed, 1 teaspoon tumeric [sic]. Cut cucumbers in 1/2 inches... Add cucumbers and onions and let come to a boil, then put in jars and seal.

1968 Marion Brown's Southern Cookbk. 145 Pat's summer salad... ½ head of lettuce, shredded..1 large tomato, diced..1 tablespoon..bread and butter pickle [etc.].

2019 East Bay (Calif.) Times (Nexis) 25 Mar. The burger features two certified grass-fed patties..on a potato bun. The Double is topped with bread-and-butter pickles made in-house.

bread and butter plate n. a plate for bread and butter; esp. (a) a small plate for bread and butter or other accompaniments to a meal, a side plate (cf. bread plate n. (b) at bread n. Compounds 4, butter plate n. 1); (b) a large, typically decorative plate for serving slices of bread and butter.

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1779 Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser 17 Feb. Broke open last night, a house in..Smithfield, and stolen thereon..two large china dishes,..two bread and butter plates, &c.

1833 Catal. Househ. Furnit. Late Celebrated Mr. Kean, Richmond 9 A neat tea and coffee service, of white, green and gold china, consisting of 12 cups, 12 saucers, 8 coffee cups, slop basin and 2 bread and butter plates.

1896 Amer. Kitchen Mag. Apr. 19/1 Do not hide the roll in the napkin. Use a bread and butter plate... This..should be small..and..be placed at the left, just above the fork and napkin.

2003 Western Morning News (Nexis) 7 June 6 A sandwich set in the Crocus pattern comprising a bread and butter plate with six tea plates.

2013 D. Johnson & L. Tyler Mod. Manners 154/1 Break off a bite-sized portion of bread or roll over the bread and butter plate. Hold the bread on the plate while you butter it.

bread and butter pudding n. a dessert made with slices of buttered bread layered with dried fruit and sugar, which is soaked with a mixture of egg and milk and baked in the oven.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun] > other puddings

alker1381

moile1381

tansyc1450

tansy-cakea1475

hasty pudding1598

hodge-puddinga1616

bread pudding1623

marrowbone pudding1623

marrow-pudding1631

turmeric puddinga1704

Indian pudding1722

Westminster fool1723

pease pudding1725

pone1725

bread and butter pudding1727

custard pudding1727

purry1751

tartan-purry1751

tansy-pudding1769

vermicelli pudding1769

skimmer-cake1795

dogsbody1818

kugel1823

stickjaw1827

kheer1832

pea pudding1844

dough1848

mousseline1876

mousse1885

goose-pudding1892

payasam1892

tartan1893

malva puddinga1981

1727 E. Smith Compl. Housewife 82 A Bread and Butter Pudding for Fasting Days. Take a two-penny Loaf, and a pound of fresh Butter; spread it in very thin slices.

1835 Friendship's Offering 150 Here comes a third course!..a bread-and-butter pudding, and a rhubarb tart.

2011 Maya News 16 Feb. 25/2 68 per cent of shoppers interviewed have claimed that apple crumble is their favourite pudding: spotted dick, sticky toffee pudding, jam rolypoly and bread and butter pudding have also seen sales soar.

Derivatives

† bread-and-butterhood n. Obsolete rare (a) young people collectively; (b) childhood; girlhood or boyhood. Cf. sense B. 1.

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the world > people > person > child > [noun] > childhood

childhoodOE

childheadc1330

bairnheid1393

enfauncec1400

puerice1481

puerility1512

childage1548

childishness1597

leading-string1677

impuberty1785

cap and feather days1822

bairnhooda1835

child-life1841

pupillarity1846

tunic-hood1859

bread-and-butterhood1869

preadolescence1907

latency1910

puerilism1925

1869 G. P. Upton Lett. Peregrine Pickle 208 He is the idol before which female bread-and-butterhood bends.

1884 Lady Majendie Out of Element III. xxiv. 321 I think the ties of bread-and-butterhood are stronger than any later ones after all.

1904 Bookman Mar. 83/2 Adelaide was a young lady at last. Having ideas, she developed rather early out of bread-and-butterhood.

ˌbread-and-ˈbutterless adj. somewhat rare having no bread and butter; without bread and butter.

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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [adjective] > having no food

meatlessOE

fleshlessc1394

foodlessc1450

supperless1509

baitless1600

victless?1615

provisionless1781

cornless1828

appleless1830

victual-less1831

bread-and-butterless1850

faggotless1867

tuckerless1937

1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xxv. 253 He..sate..rapt in wonder, tea-less, and bread-and-butterless.

1912 ‘Saki’ Unbearable Bassington (1928) vi. 76 He incurs the odium of reducing us to a bread-and-butterless condition.

2018 @Fortwire 17 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 26 June 2020) Some people are just insane, dancing for their bread and butter-less breakfast.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bread and butter
释义	bread and buttern.adj. Brit. /ˌbrɛd (ə)n(d) ˈbʌtə/, U.S. /ˌbrɛd (ə)n ˈbədər/ Forms: see bread n., and conj.¹, adv., and n.¹, and butter n.¹; also Welsh English 1900s– brem butter. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bread n., and conj.¹, butter n.¹ Etymology: < bread n. + and conj.¹ + butter n.¹ A. n. 1. a. Bread spread with butter. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > bread with spread or filling > [noun] > bread with butter, jam, or other spread bread and butter1533 butterham1713 butter toast1757 tartine1804 butty1827 punk and plaster1891 thunder and lightning1905 cinnamon toast1927 jam-butty1927 1533 T. More 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere iv. p. cii As it were a babe that wepeth and waxeth angry wyth the kyghte, for catchynge awaye hys brede and butter. 1629 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime iii. 15 Euery one hath..a peece of bread and butter, and beere as pleaseth him. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 323. ¶6 Eat a slice of Bread and Butter, drank a Dish of Bohea. 1883 E. P. Roe in Harper's Mag. Dec. 50/2 She likes bread and butter and kindred realities of our matter-of-fact sphere. 1955 J. P. Donleavy Ginger Man xix. 213 Sitting, facing one another across the white table. Bacon and eggs, tea, bread and butter. Yummy. 2001 B. Neels Always & Forever ii. 27 He was taking great bites from a thick slice of bread and butter. b. English regional or nonstandard. As a count noun: a piece of bread and butter. ΚΠ 1836 W. D. Cooper Gloss. Provinc. Sussex 14 Bread and butters, slices of bread and butter. 1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 54 I well remember the disgust we children felt at a lady..who always said a bread and butter, where we used a piece of bread and butter. 2009 @ThisNyght 15 Oct. in twitter.com (accessed 12 Feb. 2020) Bout to start class and the only thing I've eaten is a bread and butter and a coke..what a meal huh? 2. slang. Following a possessive. A matter which one has the right to express an opinion on, involve oneself in, etc.; = business n. 16b. Only in negative and interrogative constructions, esp. it's no bread and butter of mine (also yours, theirs, etc.). Now rare.In quot. 2019 in a work of historical fiction. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > indifference > [phrase] > none of one's business it's no bread and butter of mine (also yours, theirs, etc.)1687 1687 J. Phillips tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote ii. iii. xxxiii. 452 Whether that Country Wench were Madam Dulcinea or no, is no Bread and Butter of mine; I shall neither be the better nor worse for it. 1741 J. Swift in Lett. Dr. Swift 175 Even the common proverb teacheth you this, when we say, it is none of my bread and butter; meaning it is no business of mine. 1755 D. Bradstreet Magician, or Bottle-conjurer ii. v. in Life & Uncommon Adventures 269 What have you to do with it; is it any Bread and Butter of yours? 1833 A. Greene Life & Adv. D. Duckworth I. xii. 150 ‘Your mother's a fool.’ ‘Well, that's none of my bread and butter.’ 1865 Goulburn (New S. Wales) Herald & Chron. 27 May It doesn't look right, somehow; but it aint no bread-and-butter of mine, anyway; so I think I'll just go and have another pint. 2019 E. Quinn Marquis She's been waiting For (e-book ed.) Yet if that was the case, why would Dursley's sister be assisting her? Not that it was any bread and butter of his. 3. a. Ordinary or everyday food or sustenance. Hence also: a person's means of earning this, a livelihood; work (esp. of an everyday, routine type) which provides an income; (also) something which provides a basic or primary source of income. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > [noun] > regular occupation, trade, or profession > livelihood lifeOE foodOE livelihoodc1300 livingc1330 ploughc1390 purchasec1475 daily bread1526 being1570 governing1572 shift1572 supportation1576 thrift1579 livelihead1590 thrive1592 breadwinnera1614 subsistence1644 gain1655 bread and butter1691 through-bearing1705 bread1719 bread ticket1801 daily1817 lifehood1823 rice bowl1853 crust1916 1691 T. D'Urfey Love for Money v. iii. 55 I wish I had been married sooner for my part, for I begin to love Mr. Semibrief since we bedded, better than my bread and butter by half. 1770 T. Bridges Adventures of Bank-note I. xvi. 144 The affair was so serious a matter, that nothing less than three parts out of four of a gentleman's bread and butter depended upon it. 1873 M. C. Ames Ten Years in Washington xxx. 304 The lower stories of the Treasury are filled with airy apartments, in which privileged mortals serve their country and earn their bread and butter. 1952 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 239/1 I reckon that about 3,000,000 folk would have to look elsewhere for their bread and butter if there were no trawlermen—or fish. 2013 Daily Tel. 16 Sept. 23/3 Best sellers are a bookshop's bread and butter. b. A basic, ordinary, or routine part of something.In quot. 1891 as part of an extended metaphor. ΚΠ 1891 Chautauquan Apr. 64/2 Take as an illustration those schools where some pitiful school-reader is the ‘bread and butter’ of the work and the classic only a rare condiment; the school-reader the standard, and Shakspere or Homer only a ‘supplementary reader’. 1900 Musical Times Apr. 304/2 The ‘bread and butter’ of the exercises used are those contained in Sir George Martin's ‘Choir boy training’ primer. 1994 N.Y. Times 7 Aug. ii. 28/5 Madness and depressive pining for a dead lover are the bread and butter of early Romantic opera and song. 2001 Time 20 Aug. 63/1 I've been a programmer for 10 years, and this is the kind of thing you have to do all the time... Interoperability, reverse engineering—this is our bread and butter. 4. Originally U.S. A letter sent to thank a person for his or her hospitality.The fuller form bread-and-butter letter is more usual (see bread-and-butter letter n. at Compounds). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > gratitude > [noun] > thanks > letter of bread-and-butter letter1891 Collins1904 bread and butter1911 society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > letter of thanks for hospitality bread-and-butter letter1891 roofer1902 Collins1904 bread and butter1911 roofer letter1937 1911 Youth's Compan. 12 Oct. 518/4 I was foolish to put a ban on their bread-and-butters. What will the rest of the week be without hearing from them? 1964 E. Bowen Little Girls iii. i. 164 Rude? Should have written a bread-and-butter? 1998 D. F. Sutton Let. 7 Oct. in R. Dutton & J. E. Howard Compan. Shakespeare's Wks. (2003) II. iii. 68 A ‘bread and butter’ written to Lord Ellesmere, Keeper of the Privy Seal, in 1596. B. adj. In attributive use. Frequently hyphenated. 1. Of a person: girlish, schoolgirlish; (sometimes more generally) childish; used depreciatively, with implication of naive or unsophisticated character. In later use esp. in bread and butter miss. Also: designating the period of girlhood or boyhood. Now rare.With allusion to bread and butter being a food frequently eaten by children.In quot. 1979 in a work of historical fiction. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [adjective] > relating to childhood childhood1600 bread and buttera1625 early1630 prepubertal1858 preschool1879 pre-intellectual1891 preadolescent1904 pre-kindergarten1912 prepuberal1913 pre-teen1929 prepubic1932 a1625 J. Fletcher Humorous Lieut. iii. vii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Rrr4/1 Ye bread and butter rogues, do ye run from me? 1807 Salmagundi 2 June 211 These little beardless bread and butter politicians. 1861 A. Trollope Barchester Towers xli A lady at any rate past the wishy-washy bread-and-butter period of life. 1914 Theatre May 241/1 Whether our girls at the bread-and-butter age are particularly rude, I am not prepared to say. 1932 J. L. Mitchell tr. H. Mann Blue Angel ix. 150 ‘Quite a bread-and-butter miss, isn't she?’ remarked Kiepert, taking it with great good-humour. 1979 ‘G. Cullingford’ If Wishes were Hearses (e-book ed.) Don't be a prig, Caro. You really are a bread and butter miss. 2. a. Relating to or concerned with everyday needs and issues; ordinary; mundane, humdrum. In later use also: basic, fundamental, very important. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > of high or great importance worthlyeOE mickleeOE greatc1225 right hand?c1225 solemna1387 materialc1475 superior1526 grand1542 weighty1558 main1581 pregnant1591 pregnate1598 materious1611 moliminous1642 momentous1656 magic1696 all-important1748 big1748 eventful1756 colossal1775 bread and butter1822 bada1825 key1832 all-absorbing1834 earth-moving?1834 earth-shaking1835 earth-shatteringa1859 high-ranking1874 beaucoup1917 major league1951 earth-stopping1956 crucial1957 the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or ordinary commona1325 naturalc1390 ordinarc1400 ordinary?a1425 ilk-day's1488 naturely?c1510 famous1528 familiar1533 vulgar1553 workaday1554 modern1591 tralatitious1653 commonish1792 workday1808 everyday1813 bread and butter1822 normal1843 common-seeming1857 tralatician1893 wake-a-day1893 1822 H. Ainslie Pilgrimage to Land of Burns 74 It [sc. the clock] rang like a greeting peal, while the measured quantum of its strokes raised up pleasant bread and butter scenes. 1894 L. Palmer Where Honour Leads xii. 214 It is strange..how some men are born to events, while others, from cradle to grave, lead such humdrum bread-and-butter lives. 1991 Baseball Illustrated 27 66/2 The power hitter remains the bread and butter player of any team. 2001 K. Fearon & A. Verlaque Lurgan Champagne & Other Tales 112 It's a pity that the bread and butter issues that were important for ordinary people, like health and education, didn't get the airtime that they should have. b. Providing a primary or dependable source of income; relied on for income. ΚΠ a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) I. i. 6 By the Germans, the latter [i.e. the professional or lucrative sciences] are usually distinguished as the Brodwissenschaften, which we may translate, ‘The Bread and Butter sciences’. 1926 Travel Nov. 48/1 List books, bread and butter books, books which sell on a gradual curve, over a long period of years—these are the bone and sinew of any sound publishing enterprise. 1972 W. Fadiman Hollywood Now 72 The film that draws large audiences and consequently large profits, the bread-and-butter film, is the lifeblood of Hollywood. 2002 Cathedral Music Oct. 12/1 The music of the Minster has taken up much of my life but I have always needed a ‘bread and butter’ job and for many years I taught at schools in the area. Phrases to quarrel with one's bread and butter: to act against one's own (esp. financial) interests. Now somewhat rare. ΚΠ 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 17 I won't quarrel with my Bread and Butter for all that: I know when I'm well. 1884 Harper's Mag. Dec. 92/2 Industries were not so plenty..that men could afford lightly to quarrel with their bread and butter. 1919 Bankers' Monthly Mar. 51/1 This is no time for us to quarrel with our bread and butter by talking of embargoes on exports of anything that we have to sell. 1955 A. L. Rowse Diary 28 Dec. (2004) 198 I have been incredibly careful, over here, not to quarrel with my bread and butter—partly because the audience is so warmly appreciative. Compounds bread-and-butter letter n. originally U.S. a letter sent to thank a person for his or her hospitality; cf. sense A. 4. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > gratitude > [noun] > thanks > letter of bread-and-butter letter1891 Collins1904 bread and butter1911 society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > letter of thanks for hospitality bread-and-butter letter1891 roofer1902 Collins1904 bread and butter1911 roofer letter1937 1891 Chautauquan Dec. 344/1 There is seldom more for a visitor to do than to arrange the flowers for the hostess, to send her a ‘bread and butter’ letter when one has left her house, and a present on Christmas. 1927 Scribner's Mag. July 80/2 He was the solemn sort who always writes his bread-and-butter letters the day after he has finished a visit. 2012 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 4 June 16 Today's event is a thoroughly modern take on the royal picnic. Let's hope that all 10,000 guests remember to write their bread-and-butter letters. bread-and-butter pickle n. North American (in plural or as a mass noun) a sweet pickle made from sliced cucumber pickled in seasoned brine, typically eaten on sandwiches. [Apparently so called because originally eaten just with bread and butter.] ΚΠ 1923 Orange Judd Farmer (Chicago) 1 Sept. 14/1 Bread and Butter Pickles. 1 doz. medium size cucumbers. 4 large onions, 1 quart vinegar, 2 cups light brown sugar, 1 teaspoon mustard seed, 1 teaspoon celery seed, 1 teaspoon tumeric [sic]. Cut cucumbers in 1/2 inches... Add cucumbers and onions and let come to a boil, then put in jars and seal. 1968 Marion Brown's Southern Cookbk. 145 Pat's summer salad... ½ head of lettuce, shredded..1 large tomato, diced..1 tablespoon..bread and butter pickle [etc.]. 2019 East Bay (Calif.) Times (Nexis) 25 Mar. The burger features two certified grass-fed patties..on a potato bun. The Double is topped with bread-and-butter pickles made in-house. bread and butter plate n. a plate for bread and butter; esp. (a) a small plate for bread and butter or other accompaniments to a meal, a side plate (cf. bread plate n. (b) at bread n. Compounds 4, butter plate n. 1); (b) a large, typically decorative plate for serving slices of bread and butter. ΚΠ 1779 Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser 17 Feb. Broke open last night, a house in..Smithfield, and stolen thereon..two large china dishes,..two bread and butter plates, &c. 1833 Catal. Househ. Furnit. Late Celebrated Mr. Kean, Richmond 9 A neat tea and coffee service, of white, green and gold china, consisting of 12 cups, 12 saucers, 8 coffee cups, slop basin and 2 bread and butter plates. 1896 Amer. Kitchen Mag. Apr. 19/1 Do not hide the roll in the napkin. Use a bread and butter plate... This..should be small..and..be placed at the left, just above the fork and napkin. 2003 Western Morning News (Nexis) 7 June 6 A sandwich set in the Crocus pattern comprising a bread and butter plate with six tea plates. 2013 D. Johnson & L. Tyler Mod. Manners 154/1 Break off a bite-sized portion of bread or roll over the bread and butter plate. Hold the bread on the plate while you butter it. bread and butter pudding n. a dessert made with slices of buttered bread layered with dried fruit and sugar, which is soaked with a mixture of egg and milk and baked in the oven. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun] > other puddings alker1381 moile1381 tansyc1450 tansy-cakea1475 hasty pudding1598 hodge-puddinga1616 bread pudding1623 marrowbone pudding1623 marrow-pudding1631 turmeric puddinga1704 Indian pudding1722 Westminster fool1723 pease pudding1725 pone1725 bread and butter pudding1727 custard pudding1727 purry1751 tartan-purry1751 tansy-pudding1769 vermicelli pudding1769 skimmer-cake1795 dogsbody1818 kugel1823 stickjaw1827 kheer1832 pea pudding1844 dough1848 mousseline1876 mousse1885 goose-pudding1892 payasam1892 tartan1893 malva puddinga1981 1727 E. Smith Compl. Housewife 82 A Bread and Butter Pudding for Fasting Days. Take a two-penny Loaf, and a pound of fresh Butter; spread it in very thin slices. 1835 Friendship's Offering 150 Here comes a third course!..a bread-and-butter pudding, and a rhubarb tart. 2011 Maya News 16 Feb. 25/2 68 per cent of shoppers interviewed have claimed that apple crumble is their favourite pudding: spotted dick, sticky toffee pudding, jam rolypoly and bread and butter pudding have also seen sales soar. Derivatives † bread-and-butterhood n. Obsolete rare (a) young people collectively; (b) childhood; girlhood or boyhood. Cf. sense B. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [noun] > childhood childhoodOE childheadc1330 bairnheid1393 enfauncec1400 puerice1481 puerility1512 childage1548 childishness1597 leading-string1677 impuberty1785 cap and feather days1822 bairnhooda1835 child-life1841 pupillarity1846 tunic-hood1859 bread-and-butterhood1869 preadolescence1907 latency1910 puerilism1925 1869 G. P. Upton Lett. Peregrine Pickle 208 He is the idol before which female bread-and-butterhood bends. 1884 Lady Majendie Out of Element III. xxiv. 321 I think the ties of bread-and-butterhood are stronger than any later ones after all. 1904 Bookman Mar. 83/2 Adelaide was a young lady at last. Having ideas, she developed rather early out of bread-and-butterhood. ˌbread-and-ˈbutterless adj. somewhat rare having no bread and butter; without bread and butter. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [adjective] > having no food meatlessOE fleshlessc1394 foodlessc1450 supperless1509 baitless1600 victless?1615 provisionless1781 cornless1828 appleless1830 victual-less1831 bread-and-butterless1850 faggotless1867 tuckerless1937 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xxv. 253 He..sate..rapt in wonder, tea-less, and bread-and-butterless. 1912 ‘Saki’ Unbearable Bassington (1928) vi. 76 He incurs the odium of reducing us to a bread-and-butterless condition. 2018 @Fortwire 17 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 26 June 2020) Some people are just insane, dancing for their bread and butter-less breakfast. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1533
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