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bread

UK/brɛd/ US/brɛːd/ common slang uk us
noun (2) verb (1)

noun

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verb

1.

cover with bread crumbs

  • “bread the pork chops before frying them”

Origin

From Middle English bred, breed, from Old English brēad (“fragment, bit, morsel, crumb", also "bread”), from Proto-West Germanic *braud, from Proto-Germanic *braudą (“bread”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerw-, *bʰrewh₁- (“to boil; to brew”), from *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”).

Phrases

  • a little bit of bread and no cheese
  • adobe bread
  • as I live by bread
  • ash bread
  • bake bread
  • bake someone's bread
  • bark bread
  • bee bread

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