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pamperdy

pamperdy noun: a form of eggy bread or French toast, the egg mixture being poured onto the bread during cooking.

Noun

pamperdy (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) A form of eggy bread or French toast, the egg mixture being poured onto the bread during cooking.
    • […] pies of divers kinds, as warden-pie, olive-pie, pippin-pie, mince-pie, and baked chewets; hog-liver puddings, veal-toasts, carponadoes, pamperdy, links, fritters, tansies, and quelques-choses; jumbals, leach-lombards, custards, or dowsets; suckets, wet and dry; March-pane, sugar-bread; jellies...1879, Mary Cowden Clarke, “Meg and Alice; the Merry Maids of Windsor”, in The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines: A Series of Fifteen Tales

Origin of pamperdy

From French pain perdu.

Questions about pamperdy

What does pamperdy mean?
Pamperdy means a form of eggy bread or French toast, the egg mixture being poured onto the bread during cooking.
What part of speech is pamperdy?
Pamperdy is a noun.

Words near pamperdy in the dictionary

  1. pamper packers
  2. pamper packing
  3. pamper-packer
  4. pamper-packers
  5. pamper-packing
  6. pamperdy
  7. pampered
  8. pamperedly
  9. pamperedness
  10. pamperer
  11. pamperers

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