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dogbread

dogbread is the alternative form of dog bread.

Meaning of dog bread

Noun

dog bread (uncountable)

  1. (US) A variant of cornbread, sometimes made into patties and fried.
    • Cornbread was on the table at each meal, but it was cooked in different ways: dog bread, milk bread, pone bread, fried bread, molasses bread, and clabber bread, which has a sour taste. The dog bread was put on the table each morning six days a week, cooked in a round cast-iron pan and cut like a...1999, Mildred Council, Mama Dip's Kitchen
  2. (dated) A bread made for dogs to consume; a dog biscuit.
    • A large quantity of the different kinds of damaged meal is annually baked in London into what is called dog-bread, for kennels, &c.1810, William Dixon, An inquiry into the impolicy of the continuance of the prohibition of distillation from grain in Great-Britain

Questions about dogbread

What is dogbread the alternative form of?
Dogbread is the alternative form of dog bread.

Words near dogbread in the dictionary

  1. dogbolt
  2. dogbolts
  3. dogbone
  4. dogbones
  5. dogboning
  6. dogbread
  7. dogbreath
  8. dogbreaths
  9. dogcart
  10. dogcarts
  11. dogcatcher

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