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Chiefly Eastern Virginia.See spoon bread.[1895-1900, Amer.]
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batter bread — noun soft bread made of cornmeal and sometimes rice or hominy; must be served with a spoon (chiefly southern) • Syn: ↑spoon bread • Hypernyms: ↑cornbread * * * noun Etymology: batter (II) chiefly M … Useful english dictionary
Batter (cooking) — Batter is a liquid mixture, usually based on one or more flours combined with liquids such as water, milk or beer. Egg is also a common component. Often a leavening agent is included in the mixture to aerate and fluff up the batter as it cooks… … Wikipedia
bread — [bred] n. [ME bred < OE bread, crumb, morsel < IE * bhreu , var. of * bhereu , to ferment < base * bher , well up, seethe > BREW, BURN1, L fervere, to boil] 1. a) a food baked from a leavened, kneaded dough made with flour or meal,… … English World dictionary
batter — bat|ter1 [ˈbætə US ər] v [I always + adverb/preposition, T] [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: batre or English bat to hit ] to hit someone or something again and again, in a way that hurts someone or causes damage ▪ He was battered to death … Dictionary of contemporary English
bread — breadless, adj. breadlessness, n. /bred/, n. 1. a kind of food made of flour or meal that has been mixed with milk or water, made into a dough or batter, with or without yeast or other leavening agent, and baked. 2. food or sustenance; livelihood … Universalium
bread — /brɛd / (say bred) noun 1. a food made of flour or meal, milk or water, etc., made into a dough or batter, with or without yeast or the like, and baked. 2. food or sustenance; livelihood: to earn one s bread. 3. Ecclesiastical the wafer or bread… …
batter — batter1 /bat euhr/, v.t. 1. to beat persistently or hard; pound repeatedly. 2. to damage by beating or hard usage: Rough roads had battered the car. High winds were battering the coast. v.i. 3. to deal heavy, repeated blows; pound steadily:… … Universalium
bread — [[t]brɛd[/t]] n. 1) coo a baked food made of a dough or batter containing flour or meal, milk or water, and often yeast or another leavening agent 2) food or sustenance; livelihood: to earn one s bread[/ex] 3) sts Slang. money 4) coo to coat with … From formal English to slang
spoon bread — noun soft bread made of cornmeal and sometimes rice or hominy; must be served with a spoon (chiefly southern) • Syn: ↑batter bread • Hypernyms: ↑cornbread * * * noun chiefly South & Midland : bread made of cornmeal with or without added rice and… … Useful english dictionary
Shortnin' Bread — (also spelled Shortenin Bread or Short nin Bread ) (Roud 4209) is often thought of as a traditional Negro plantation song. However the first version was written by James Whitcomb Riley in 1900. His song was titled A Short nin Bread Song… … Wikipedia
