white breadn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈwʌɪt ˌbrɛd/, U.S.

/ˈ(h)waɪt ˌbrɛd/

Forms: Middle English qwhytte brede, Middle English whyte breede, Middle English–1500s white bredde, Middle English–1500s white brede, Middle English–1500s white breed, Middle English–1500s whyte bred, Middle English–1500s whyte brede, Middle English–1600s whitbred, Middle English–1600s white bred, 1500s white breede, 1500s whyte breade, 1500s whyte breed, 1500s–1600s white breade, 1500s– white bread; also Scottish pre-1700 quhit braid, pre-1700 quhit breid, pre-1700 quhitt breid, pre-1700 quhitte breid, 1800s– fite breed (north-eastern), 1800s– fite breid (north-eastern).

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: white adj., bread n.

Etymology: < white adj. + bread n. Compare Middle Dutch wittebroot (late 13th cent., earliest in surnames; Dutch wittebrood ), Old High German wīzbrōt (Middle High German wīzbrōt , German Weißbrot ); also post-classical Latin panis albus (from 12th cent. in British sources), Anglo-Norman blank payn (c1300 or earlier), Middle French, French pain blanc (14th cent.). Compare white loaf n. 1.In use as adjective (and hence also in sense A. 2) with allusion to the colour and perceived blandness of white bread, and perhaps also punningly after white bred. With the Older Scots forms perhaps compare wheat-bread n. at wheat n. Compounds 1a. Earlier currency is implied by surnames and nicknames, e.g. Thom. Whitbread alias Blancpani (1268), and probably also Roger Wythbred (1254–67), Richard Witbred (1267–85), William Wytbred (1275).

A. n.

1. Bread of a light colour, now typically made with wheat flour from which the bran has been removed. Cf. brown bread n., black bread n. at black adj. and n. Compounds 1e(a).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > white bread

white bread?c1335

white1913

?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 157 Hail be ȝe bakers wiþ ȝur louis smale Of white bred and of blake.

a1400 in K. W. Engeroff Untersuchung ‘Usages of Winchester’ (1914) 64 Euerych bakere of þe town..sholde make whitbred.

a1500 in J. Raine Vol. Eng. Misc. N. Counties Eng. (1890) 62 No bakar y^t bakys qwhytte brede schall bake brown brede..nor he y^t bakys brown brede schall bake no qwhyte brede.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xviii^v Polerde whete..is gretter corne and wyll make white bredde.

1598 tr. G. de Rosselli Epulario sig. D^v Putting vnto it crums of Whitebread.

1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 83 Thou that from Heav'n thy daily White-bread hast.

1675 J. Crowne Countrey Wit iii. 44 See that the Mutton-broath have white-bread Sippets in it.

1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ix. 80 You may crumble White Bread instead of Biskets.

1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxv. 240 The white bread, fruit, and Spanish wines..I received as a present.

1835 Domest. Life in Eng. 194 In large towns white bread is almost universal; but in the country, brown is common.

1881 Eclectic Mag. Nov. 695/1 White bread..was not generally adopted, of course, on its dietetic merits, but on account of its delicacy of appearance and flavour.

1920 Washington Post 29 Feb. 15 (headline) Belgian miners want white bread and increased pay.

1987 Vegetarian Times Apr. 9/1 Everyone knows whole-wheat bread is a better source of fiber than refined white bread.

2013 Chicago Defender 3 Apr. 20/4 Try a quinoa pilaf or creamy polenta as a side instead of white bread or mashed potatoes.

2. colloquial (originally and chiefly North American). Usually depreciative.

a. A middle-class white person; a person who embodies the perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes of the white middle class; such values or attitudes as embodied by an individual.

ΚΠ

1981 N.Y. Times 1 Feb. 46/2 Vincent..is white bread in a three-piece suit.

1984 D. Mamet Glengarry Glen Ross ii. 58 You're scum, you're fucking white bread.

1991 A. D. Foster Cat-a-lyst i. 4 This dude was born a slave, right? So he gets freed,..joins the Union Army where he meets this white bread.

2007 A. Theroux Laura Warholic xlvi. 755 You're a loser, you're a doormat, you're white bread. A parrot perch. Sloppy seconds.

b. Culture or entertainment that is regarded as bland, conventional, or representative of white middle-class values. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > cultures by class

popular culture1854

proletkult1919

pop culture1959

midcult1960

white bread1996

1996 Rolling Stone 18 Apr. 78/2 Soul Train finally gave his family a '70s TV alternative to the white bread of the Partridges.

1997 Chicago Tribune 14 Dec. iv. 12/4 This..grand finale..[is] strictly white bread; but it's white bread of a very wholesome and expensive kind.

B. adj.

colloquial (originally and chiefly North American). Usually depreciative. Of, belonging to, or representative of the white middle class; conventional, strait-laced; bland, innocuous.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [adjective] > middle-class or bourgeois > characteristic of

bourgeois1764

middle class1846

chintzy1851

middle-classy1926

gin and Jag1963

white bread1977

1977 Newsweek 3 Oct. 60 He walked off the Aladdin Hotel stage in Las Vegas, fed up with doing ‘white bread’ humor.

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.

1991 D. Coupland Generation X ii. xiv. 74 He's..from some eastern white bread ghetto: New Rochelle? Shaker Heights?

2000 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 20 Feb. 4/1 In reticent, white-bread Lake Forest, where nothing is ever supposed to go wrong.

2009 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 52/2 Think of the deliberately white-bread world of Mormon America, where the '50s never ended.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	white bread
释义	white breadn.adj. Brit. /ˈwʌɪt ˌbrɛd/, U.S. /ˈ(h)waɪt ˌbrɛd/ Forms: Middle English qwhytte brede, Middle English whyte breede, Middle English–1500s white bredde, Middle English–1500s white brede, Middle English–1500s white breed, Middle English–1500s whyte bred, Middle English–1500s whyte brede, Middle English–1600s whitbred, Middle English–1600s white bred, 1500s white breede, 1500s whyte breade, 1500s whyte breed, 1500s–1600s white breade, 1500s– white bread; also Scottish pre-1700 quhit braid, pre-1700 quhit breid, pre-1700 quhitt breid, pre-1700 quhitte breid, 1800s– fite breed (north-eastern), 1800s– fite breid (north-eastern). Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: white adj., bread n. Etymology: < white adj. + bread n. Compare Middle Dutch wittebroot (late 13th cent., earliest in surnames; Dutch wittebrood ), Old High German wīzbrōt (Middle High German wīzbrōt , German Weißbrot ); also post-classical Latin panis albus (from 12th cent. in British sources), Anglo-Norman blank payn (c1300 or earlier), Middle French, French pain blanc (14th cent.). Compare white loaf n. 1.In use as adjective (and hence also in sense A. 2) with allusion to the colour and perceived blandness of white bread, and perhaps also punningly after white bred. With the Older Scots forms perhaps compare wheat-bread n. at wheat n. Compounds 1a. Earlier currency is implied by surnames and nicknames, e.g. Thom. Whitbread alias Blancpani (1268), and probably also Roger Wythbred (1254–67), Richard Witbred (1267–85), William Wytbred (1275). A. n. 1. Bread of a light colour, now typically made with wheat flour from which the bran has been removed. Cf. brown bread n., black bread n. at black adj. and n. Compounds 1e(a). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > white bread white bread?c1335 white1913 ?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 157 Hail be ȝe bakers wiþ ȝur louis smale Of white bred and of blake. a1400 in K. W. Engeroff Untersuchung ‘Usages of Winchester’ (1914) 64 Euerych bakere of þe town..sholde make whitbred. a1500 in J. Raine Vol. Eng. Misc. N. Counties Eng. (1890) 62 No bakar y^t bakys qwhytte brede schall bake brown brede..nor he y^t bakys brown brede schall bake no qwhyte brede. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xviii^v Polerde whete..is gretter corne and wyll make white bredde. 1598 tr. G. de Rosselli Epulario sig. D^v Putting vnto it crums of Whitebread. 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 83 Thou that from Heav'n thy daily White-bread hast. 1675 J. Crowne Countrey Wit iii. 44 See that the Mutton-broath have white-bread Sippets in it. 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ix. 80 You may crumble White Bread instead of Biskets. 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxv. 240 The white bread, fruit, and Spanish wines..I received as a present. 1835 Domest. Life in Eng. 194 In large towns white bread is almost universal; but in the country, brown is common. 1881 Eclectic Mag. Nov. 695/1 White bread..was not generally adopted, of course, on its dietetic merits, but on account of its delicacy of appearance and flavour. 1920 Washington Post 29 Feb. 15 (headline) Belgian miners want white bread and increased pay. 1987 Vegetarian Times Apr. 9/1 Everyone knows whole-wheat bread is a better source of fiber than refined white bread. 2013 Chicago Defender 3 Apr. 20/4 Try a quinoa pilaf or creamy polenta as a side instead of white bread or mashed potatoes. 2. colloquial (originally and chiefly North American). Usually depreciative. a. A middle-class white person; a person who embodies the perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes of the white middle class; such values or attitudes as embodied by an individual. ΚΠ 1981 N.Y. Times 1 Feb. 46/2 Vincent..is white bread in a three-piece suit. 1984 D. Mamet Glengarry Glen Ross ii. 58 You're scum, you're fucking white bread. 1991 A. D. Foster Cat-a-lyst i. 4 This dude was born a slave, right? So he gets freed,..joins the Union Army where he meets this white bread. 2007 A. Theroux Laura Warholic xlvi. 755 You're a loser, you're a doormat, you're white bread. A parrot perch. Sloppy seconds. b. Culture or entertainment that is regarded as bland, conventional, or representative of white middle-class values. rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > cultures by class popular culture1854 proletkult1919 pop culture1959 midcult1960 white bread1996 1996 Rolling Stone 18 Apr. 78/2 Soul Train finally gave his family a '70s TV alternative to the white bread of the Partridges. 1997 Chicago Tribune 14 Dec. iv. 12/4 This..grand finale..[is] strictly white bread; but it's white bread of a very wholesome and expensive kind. B. adj. colloquial (originally and chiefly North American). Usually depreciative. Of, belonging to, or representative of the white middle class; conventional, strait-laced; bland, innocuous. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [adjective] > middle-class or bourgeois > characteristic of bourgeois1764 middle class1846 chintzy1851 middle-classy1926 gin and Jag1963 white bread1977 1977 Newsweek 3 Oct. 60 He walked off the Aladdin Hotel stage in Las Vegas, fed up with doing ‘white bread’ humor. 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. 1991 D. Coupland Generation X ii. xiv. 74 He's..from some eastern white bread ghetto: New Rochelle? Shaker Heights? 2000 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 20 Feb. 4/1 In reticent, white-bread Lake Forest, where nothing is ever supposed to go wrong. 2009 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 52/2 Think of the deliberately white-bread world of Mormon America, where the '50s never ended. 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