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brown breadnoun [mass noun]Bread that is light brown in colour, typically made using unbleached or unrefined wholemeal flour: a plate of smoked salmon and brown bread [count noun]: wheatgerm is often used as a dietary supplement and is added to some brown breads...- Margaret kept John in order with a healthy diet, eggs from their own chickens, homemade brown bread, jam, yoghurt.
- Chowder should be made rich and thick, served with doorstop slices of home-made brown bread and Irish butter.
- As I took my seat a glass of water appeared, along with some superb homemade brown bread.
adjective British rhyming slang(Of a person) dead: if the bite isn’t treated within a short period of time, you’ll be brown bread...- Rather than appealing to hooligans' better nature, he should threaten them with physical violence: "If you start a ruck, you're brown bread."
- After the alarm was raised about the fire, he telephoned her mother and allegedly told her: "Neil is brown bread."
- The exclamation, "Old Hovis is brown bread", would have made him laugh, I'm sure.
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