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gut-bread

gut-bread is the alternative form of gutbread.

Meaning of gutbread

Noun

gutbread (plural gutbreads)

  1. The pancreas, especially the pancreas of livestock used as food.
    • Having spent many years in the slaughterhouse, I can perhaps enlighten your correspondent as to what sweetbreads are. The "throat-bread" is undoubtedly the thyroid, and the "gut-bread" the pancreas. […] But I was informed that the gut-bread, i.e., the sweetbread of dictionaries and doctors, is...1909, The Pharmaceutical Journal, volume 29, London: J. Churchill, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 819

Forms of gut-bread

pluralgut-breads

Questions about gut-bread

What is gut-bread the alternative form of?
Gut-bread is the alternative form of gutbread.

Words near gut-bread in the dictionary

  1. gut shots
  2. gut through
  3. gut up
  4. gut-brain axes
  5. gut-brain axis
  6. gut-bread
  7. gut-breads
  8. gut-busting
  9. gut-check
  10. gut-checks
  11. gut-churning

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