bread-kindn.
/ˈbrɛdkʌɪnd/, U.S. /ˈbrɛdˌkaɪnd/, Caribbean English /ˈbrɛdˌkain/ Now chiefly Caribbean.
Food similar to bread, in providing a source of carbohydrate. In later use esp.: (Caribbean) yams, sweet potatoes, plantains, or similar starchy fruits and vegetables.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > sweet potato > sweet potatoes, yams, etc.
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1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xi. 311 The Mindanao People live 3 or 4 months of the year on this food for their Bread kind.
1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 376 At which Allowance we have not above 12 Days at most, being all the Bread Kind we have in the Ship.
1891 Wesleyan-Methodist Mag. May 362 A brown woman..with a load of ‘bread-kind’ on her head.
1899 W. P. Livingstone Black Jamaica v. 108 The principal food consisted of what is locally called ‘bread-kind’—yams, sweet potatoes, cocos, plantains.
1950 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 20 July 8/4 Some time is that and soso little breadkind we have to eat.
1988 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 5 Nov. 33/8 Production of sweet potato, one of the quickest and cheapest of ‘bread kind’ items has remained stagnant.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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