brown bread

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

brown bread (usually uncountable, plural brown breads)

  2. Any bread with a brown colour as contrasted with white, off-white, or other colours.
    Hypernyms: bread < food
    Hyponyms: rye bread, rye, pumpernickel bread, pumpernickel
    Coordinate terms: white bread, white
    Near-synonym: black bread
  4. Whole-wheat bread.
    Synonyms: wheat bread, wheat
    Hypernyms: bread < food
    Coordinate terms: white bread, white, rye bread, rye, pumpernickel bread, pumpernickel, black bread

Translations

Adjective

brown bread (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic, Cockney rhyming slang) Dead.
    • 2012, Graham Masterton, The Doorkeepers:
      I thought I was ready for the cold cook then. I swear it. I really thought I was brown bread.

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