sweetbread
[sweet-bred]
- Also called stomach sweetbread. the pancreas of an animal, especially a calf or a lamb, used for food.
- Also called neck sweetbread, throat sweetbread. the thymus gland of such an animal, used for food.
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Origin of sweetbread
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Related Words for sweetbread
heart, marrow, stomach, tongue, tripe, brains, chitlins, chitterlings, giblets, gizzard, kidneys, liver, pancreas, sweetbread, testis, thymusExamples from the Web for sweetbread
Historical Examples of sweetbread
The lamb's fry should be nearly all sweetbread, and very little liver.
The Cook's Decameron: A Study in Taste:Mrs. W. G. Waters
Then put in the sweetbread and ham, and enough stock to mix nicely.
The Skilful CookMary Harrison
Harris, wrinkled as a sweetbread and thin as an umbrella, blinked at Cassy.
The Paliser caseEdgar Saltus
Perhaps if you could get me a sweetbread I might manage a few morsels.
Nell, of Shorne MillsCharles Garvice
And then for her supper she had a sweetbread—a sweetbread and bacon.
Good Old AnnaMarie Belloc Lowndes
sweetbread
- the pancreas (stomach sweetbread) or the thymus gland (neck or throat sweetbread) of an animal, used for food
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Word Origin for sweetbread
C16: sweet + bread, perhaps from Old English brǣd meat; related to Old Saxon brādo ham, Old High German brāt, Old Norse brāth
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Word Origin and History for sweetbread
"pancreas used as food" 1560s, from sweet (adj.); the -bread element may be from Old English bræd "flesh."
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