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panada

panada noun: a dish made by boiling bread in water and combining the pulp with milk, stock, butter or sometimes egg yolks.

Noun

panada (countable and uncountable, plural panadas)

  1. A dish made by boiling bread in water and combining the pulp with milk, stock, butter or sometimes egg yolks.
  2. (figuratively, obsolete) Something blandly nourishing; pap.
    • He paid his Debts, call'd in some single Acquaintance, told him he was dying & drove away that Panada Conversation which Friends think proper to administer at Sick Bed-Sides, with becoming Steadiness.1789 May 8, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana
    • [They] swallow, without flinching, all the theological panada with which she may think fit to cram them.1822, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, section 12.12
  3. A thick paste or sauce made from boiling flour or breadcrumbs.

panada meaning in Kannada

panada in Kannada

ಕಣಕ

Forms of panada

pluralpanadas
alternative formpanade
alternative formpanado

Origin of panada

From Spanish panada, Italian panata (“panada”).

Questions about panada

What does panada mean?
Panada means a dish made by boiling bread in water and combining the pulp with milk, stock, butter or sometimes egg yolks.
What is panada in Kannada?
Panada in Kannada is ಕಣಕ. See Panada meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is panada?
Panada is a noun.
What is the plural of panada?
The plural of panada is panadas.

Words near panada in the dictionary

  1. Panaci
  2. panacinar
  3. panackelty
  4. panacæa
  5. panacæas
  6. panada
  7. panadas
  8. panade
  9. panades
  10. panadiplon
  11. panado

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