fairy bread
fairy bread noun: a snack made of buttered bread sprinkled with hundreds and thousands.
Noun
fairy bread (uncountable)
- A snack made of buttered bread sprinkled with hundreds and thousands.
- ‘I was a fairy-bread hogger at parties,’ he told me seriously, his eyes immediately changing. ‘I used to put them in my pockets or hide them wherever I could, until one day I was exposed when my host handed me my parka and four slices of fairy bread fell out. I was seven years old and up till this...1990, Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi, unnumbered page
- I notice that the rest of the party food has just about disappeared. All that is left are a few puddles of congealing tomato sauce, a couple of smashed meringues and the dried-out crusts from fifty-odd triangles of fairy bread.2004, Ilsa Evans, Drip Dry, page 86
Questions about fairy bread
- What does fairy bread mean?
- Fairy bread means a snack made of buttered bread sprinkled with hundreds and thousands.
- What part of speech is fairy bread?
- Fairy bread is a noun.
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