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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. Gusu
  2. gut
  3. gut barging
  4. gut bomb
  5. gut bombs
  6. gut bread
  7. gut breads
  8. gut buster
  9. gut busters
  10. gut check
  11. gut checks

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