brown breadn.

Forms: see brown adj. and bread n.

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

Etymology: < brown adj. + bread n.

Any bread of a brown colour, or of a darker colour than ordinary ‘white bread’. Formerly applied in England to bread made of rye or mixed rye and wheat; now spec. to bread made of unboulted flour, or ‘whole meal’, containing some of the ‘bran’ or outer skin of the grain as well as the fine flour. In U.S. ‘a dark-colored bread made of wheat or rye, either bolted or unbolted, mixed with Indian meal, and sometimes sweetened’. (Cf. brown baker n. at brown adj. Compounds 2.)

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

brown bread1490

Tommy1788

1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxi. 463 Bryng me som broun brede & water in a treen dyshe.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 201/2 Browne bread, pain bis.

1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. vi. 154 The next sort is named browne bread, of the colour, of which we haue two sorts, one baked vp as it cometh from the mill, so that neither the bran nor the floure are anie whit diminished.

1615 W. Bedwell tr. Mohammedis Imposturæ iii. §120 We do eat brown bread which is no way so pleasing in tast.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 442 She smelt browne-bread and Garlicke.

1620 T. Venner Via Recta i. 18 A browne houshold bread agreeable enough for labourers.

1849 Fam. Economist No. 19. 130 Proper brown bread is made from undressed wheat-meal.

1873 J. Morley Rousseau I. 65.

Compounds

C1. attributive. Of or pertaining to brown bread; †figurative homely, unrefined.

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

black bread?c1335

trencher-breadc1460

trencher-loafc1460

hogmana1483

cribble bread1552

brown breada1556

household bread1620

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [adjective] > brown bread

brown breada1556

the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [adjective] > unsophisticated

plainc1425

homelyc1426

homespun1590

brown bread1606

unsophisticate1607

simple1613

uncompounded1615

uncourtlike1659

unsophisticated1665

russet-coated1683

buff1792

unvarnished1827

rube1898

cracker-barrel1933

haimish1957

bakya1960

a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) i. iii. sig. B.ij^v Old browne bread crustes.

1606 Wily Beguilde 18 Hees a verie idiot and Browne bread Clowne.

17.. T. Hanson in R. Southey Life Wesley (1820) II. 80 I am but a brown-bread preacher.

1860 L. V. Harcourt Diaries G. Rose I. 281 The Brown-bread Act.

C2.

brown-bread ice n. ice cream made with brown-bread crumbs, popular in Victorian and Edwardian times.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > ices > [noun] > ice-cream > types or forms of

pistachio ice?1790

iced tea1827

tutti-frutti1834

brown-bread ice1846

vanilla ice1846

vanille ice1846

Neapolitan ice1867

Neapolitan ice cream1868

hokey-pokey1884

strawberry ice cream1890

choc chip1903

horn1908

Tortoni1911

slider1915

choc bar1919

cone1920

Eskimo pie1921

brick1922

brickette1922

Eskimo1922

choc ice1924

cornet1926

briquette1927

gelato1932

ninety-nine1935

wafer1936

fudgicle1938

ripple1939

tub1939

vanilla1955

double dip1965

1846 Lady Montefiore Jewish Man. vii. 148 The ice should be prepared in a round mould—brown-bread ice is particularly well adapted to a Juditha.

1875 L. Troubridge Jrnl. in Life amongst Troubridges (1966) 117 I had a brown bread ice, which was one tiny drop of consolation.

1965 T. Fitzgibbon Art Brit. Cooking 201 Brown Bread Ice Cream. This was a most popular Edwardian ice-cream... The brown breadcrumbs give the ice a nutty flavour.

Draft additions June 2018

[Rhyming slang.] Dead. Also: defunct. Cf. loaf n.¹ 2g.

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the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adjective]

deadOE

lifelessOE

of lifeOE

storvena1225

dead as a door-nail1362

ydead1387

stark deadc1390

colda1400

bypast1425

perishedc1440

morta1450

obita1450

unquickc1449

gone?a1475

dead and gone1482

extinct1483

departed1503

bygonea1522

amort1546

soulless1553

breathless1562

parted1562

mortified1592

low-laid1598

disanimate1601

carcasseda1603

defunct1603

no morea1616

with God1617

death-stricken1618

death-strucken1622

expired1631

past itc1635

incinerated1657

stock-dead1662

dead as a herring1664

death-struck1688

as dead as a nit1789

(as) dead as mutton1792

low1808

laid in the locker1815

strae-dead1820

disanimated1833

ghosted1834

under the daisies1842

irresuscitable1843

under the sod1847

toes up1851

dead and buried1863

devitalized1866

translated1869

dead and done (for, with)1886

daid1890

bung1893

(as) dead as the (or a) dodo1904

six feet under1942

brown bread1969

1969 S. T. Kendall Up Frog 22 E says ‘I'm back from Australia.’ Says I ‘we thought you was brahn bread.’

1987 Guardian 19 June 2/4 He bragged in a letter to a fellow prisoner ‘I thought the cripple was already brown bread when I raised the alarm.’

1997 G. Williams Diamond Geezers i. 10 If he wasn't already brown bread he was on the way out.

2017 Australian (Nexis) 17 June (Feature section) 38 The Honda engine carked it, was brown bread and slipped off its mortal coil.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	brown bread
释义	brown breadn. Forms: see brown adj. and bread n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: brown adj., bread n. Etymology: < brown adj. + bread n. Any bread of a brown colour, or of a darker colour than ordinary ‘white bread’. Formerly applied in England to bread made of rye or mixed rye and wheat; now spec. to bread made of unboulted flour, or ‘whole meal’, containing some of the ‘bran’ or outer skin of the grain as well as the fine flour. In U.S. ‘a dark-colored bread made of wheat or rye, either bolted or unbolted, mixed with Indian meal, and sometimes sweetened’. (Cf. brown baker n. at brown adj. Compounds 2.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > brown bread brown bread1490 Tommy1788 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxi. 463 Bryng me som broun brede & water in a treen dyshe. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 201/2 Browne bread, pain bis. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. vi. 154 The next sort is named browne bread, of the colour, of which we haue two sorts, one baked vp as it cometh from the mill, so that neither the bran nor the floure are anie whit diminished. 1615 W. Bedwell tr. Mohammedis Imposturæ iii. §120 We do eat brown bread which is no way so pleasing in tast. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 442 She smelt browne-bread and Garlicke. View more context for this quotation 1620 T. Venner Via Recta i. 18 A browne houshold bread agreeable enough for labourers. 1849 Fam. Economist No. 19. 130 Proper brown bread is made from undressed wheat-meal. 1873 J. Morley Rousseau I. 65. Compounds C1. attributive. Of or pertaining to brown bread; †figurative homely, unrefined. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > coarse bread black bread?c1335 trencher-breadc1460 trencher-loafc1460 hogmana1483 cribble bread1552 brown breada1556 household bread1620 the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [adjective] > brown bread brown breada1556 the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [adjective] > unsophisticated plainc1425 homelyc1426 homespun1590 brown bread1606 unsophisticate1607 simple1613 uncompounded1615 uncourtlike1659 unsophisticated1665 russet-coated1683 buff1792 unvarnished1827 rube1898 cracker-barrel1933 haimish1957 bakya1960 a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) i. iii. sig. B.ij^v Old browne bread crustes. 1606 Wily Beguilde 18 Hees a verie idiot and Browne bread Clowne. 17.. T. Hanson in R. Southey Life Wesley (1820) II. 80 I am but a brown-bread preacher. 1860 L. V. Harcourt Diaries G. Rose I. 281 The Brown-bread Act. C2. brown-bread ice n. ice cream made with brown-bread crumbs, popular in Victorian and Edwardian times. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > ices > [noun] > ice-cream > types or forms of pistachio ice?1790 iced tea1827 tutti-frutti1834 brown-bread ice1846 vanilla ice1846 vanille ice1846 Neapolitan ice1867 Neapolitan ice cream1868 hokey-pokey1884 strawberry ice cream1890 choc chip1903 horn1908 Tortoni1911 slider1915 choc bar1919 cone1920 Eskimo pie1921 brick1922 brickette1922 Eskimo1922 choc ice1924 cornet1926 briquette1927 gelato1932 ninety-nine1935 wafer1936 fudgicle1938 ripple1939 tub1939 vanilla1955 double dip1965 1846 Lady Montefiore Jewish Man. vii. 148 The ice should be prepared in a round mould—brown-bread ice is particularly well adapted to a Juditha. 1875 L. Troubridge Jrnl. in Life amongst Troubridges (1966) 117 I had a brown bread ice, which was one tiny drop of consolation. 1965 T. Fitzgibbon Art Brit. Cooking 201 Brown Bread Ice Cream. This was a most popular Edwardian ice-cream... The brown breadcrumbs give the ice a nutty flavour. Draft additions June 2018 [Rhyming slang.] Dead. Also: defunct. Cf. loaf n.¹ 2g. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adjective] deadOE lifelessOE of lifeOE storvena1225 dead as a door-nail1362 ydead1387 stark deadc1390 colda1400 bypast1425 perishedc1440 morta1450 obita1450 unquickc1449 gone?a1475 dead and gone1482 extinct1483 departed1503 bygonea1522 amort1546 soulless1553 breathless1562 parted1562 mortified1592 low-laid1598 disanimate1601 carcasseda1603 defunct1603 no morea1616 with God1617 death-stricken1618 death-strucken1622 expired1631 past itc1635 incinerated1657 stock-dead1662 dead as a herring1664 death-struck1688 as dead as a nit1789 (as) dead as mutton1792 low1808 laid in the locker1815 strae-dead1820 disanimated1833 ghosted1834 under the daisies1842 irresuscitable1843 under the sod1847 toes up1851 dead and buried1863 devitalized1866 translated1869 dead and done (for, with)1886 daid1890 bung1893 (as) dead as the (or a) dodo1904 six feet under1942 brown bread1969 1969 S. T. Kendall Up Frog 22 E says ‘I'm back from Australia.’ Says I ‘we thought you was brahn bread.’ 1987 Guardian 19 June 2/4 He bragged in a letter to a fellow prisoner ‘I thought the cripple was already brown bread when I raised the alarm.’ 1997 G. Williams Diamond Geezers i. 10 If he wasn't already brown bread he was on the way out. 2017 Australian (Nexis) 17 June (Feature section) 38 The Honda engine carked it, was brown bread and slipped off its mortal coil. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1490
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