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bread /bred/

noun
  1. Food made of a baked dough of flour or meal, usu with yeast or other raising agent
  2. Food
  3. Livelihood
  4. Money (slang)
transitive verb

To cover (a cutlet, etc) with breadcrumbs before cooking

ORIGIN: OE brēad, prob from a Gmc root meaning a fragment; cf Scot use of piece

breadˈed adjective

breadˈ-and-buttˈer noun

  1. Bread sliced and buttered
  2. Livelihood

adjective

  1. Connected with making a living or with the consumption of bread-and-butter
  2. Materialistic, practical
  3. Youthful, naive
  4. Ordinary, routine

bread-and-butter letter noun

A letter of thanks for hospitality

bread-and-butter pudding noun

A baked dessert made from buttered bread, dried fruit, eggs, milk and sugar

breadˈbasket noun

  1. A basket for holding bread
  2. A cereal-growing region
  3. The stomach (slang)

breadˈberry noun

Bread steeped in hot milk

bread bin noun

A container in which bread is stored

breadˈboard noun

  1. A board on which bread is cut or dough kneaded
  2. A board on which temporary or experimental electronic circuits may be laid out

transitive verb

To make an experimental version of (an electronic circuit)

breadˈ-chipper noun (Shakespeare)

A person who cuts the crusts off bread, an under-butler

breadˈ-corn noun

Grain of which bread is made

breadˈcrumb noun

  1. The inner parts of a loaf
  2. (usu in pl) bread crumbled down, eg as a dressing (when commercially produced usu coloured orange) for fish, etc

transitive verb

To cover with breadcrumbs

breadˈfruit noun

  1. The fruit of a moraceous tree (Artocarpus altilis) of the South Sea Islands, which when roasted forms a good substitute for bread
  2. The tree

breadˈhead noun (slang)

  1. A drug dealer who is not an addict
  2. Someone motivated by money alone

bread knife noun

A large serrated knife for cutting bread

breadˈline see on the breadline below.

breadˈnut noun

The fruit of a tropical American tree (Brosimum alicastrum) related to the breadfruit tree, used as bread when boiled or roasted

bread pudding noun

A baked pudding made with bread, milk, sugar, eggs and dried fruit

breadˈroom noun

An apartment in a ship's hold where the bread is kept

breadˈroot noun

  1. The prairie-turnip, a N American papilionaceous plant (Psoralea esculenta) with an edible root
  2. The yam

bread sauce noun

A thick milk-based sauce made with bread(crumbs)

breadˈstick noun

A long, thin stick of bread dough baked until crisp

bread study noun

Any branch of study taken up as a means of gaining a living

breadˈstuff noun

  1. Bread in any form
  2. Any material of which bread is made

bread tree noun

A name for various trees whose seeds or pith yield a substitute for bread, eg Kaffir-bread

breadˈwinner noun

The person who earns a living for a family

bread and circuses

Translation of the Roman satirist Juvenal's panem et circenses (food and amusements at public expense)

bread buttered on both sides

Very fortunate circumstances

cast one's bread upon the waters

To be generous or charitable without expecting any reward

know which side one's bread is buttered on

To know how to act for one's own best interests

on the breadline

At subsistence level, with just enough to make ends meet (from breadline, a queue of poor or down-and-out people waiting for free food, esp from government sources)

take the bread out of someone's mouth

To deprive someone of the means of living
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