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breading Definition


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bread
noun
    1. One of the oldest and most important staple foods known to man, usually prepared from wheat or rye flour mixed with water or milk, kneaded into a dough with a leavening agent, eg yeast, and baked.
    2. Food and the other things one needs to live; sustenance.
      Thesaurus: food, sustenance, nourishment, provisions, victuals, aliment.
      Form: daily bread (often)
    3. slang
      Money.
      Thesaurus: money, coin, cash, dollars, dough (slang), moolah (slang), greenbacks (US slang).
verb
    breaded, breading
    1. To cover (a piece of food) with breadcrumbs before cooking.
Derivative: breaded
adj
      Example: breaded haddock
Idiom: know which side one's bread is buttered
    colloq
    To know how to act for one's own best advantage.
Idiom: like one's bread buttered on both sides (want one's bread buttered on both sides)
    colloq
    To like or want to live in great comfort or luxury.
Idiom: take the bread out of someone's mouth
    colloq
    To deprive them of their very means of living.
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon.



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