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crackers
English
Etymology
See cracker +? -ers. The South African sense derive their name from their sound and their status as a plurale tantum by association with "trousers". The adjectival sense derives from British naval expressions referring to firecrackers in one's head, originally as "he's got the crackers" and then "he's gone crackers" before the present "he is crackers".
Noun
crackers
- plural of cracker
- (South Africa, only plural) A kind of noisy leather pants or trousers.
- 1849, E.E. Napier, Excursions in Southern Africa, Vol. II, p. 13:
- Sheepskin trousers—which, from the sound they make at every movement of the wearer, are called ‘crackers’.
- 1849, E.E. Napier, Excursions in Southern Africa, Vol. II, p. 13:
Adjective
crackers (comparative more crackers, superlative most crackers)
- (Britain, colloquial) Crazy, insane.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:insane
Anagrams
- recracks
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bread
English
Wikibooks
Pronunciation
- (General Australian) enPR: br?d, IPA(key): /b??d/, /b?e?d/
- (UK, US) enPR: br?d, IPA(key): /b??d/
- Rhymes: -?d
- Homophone: bred
Etymology 1
From Middle English bred, breed, from Old English br?ad (“fragment, bit, morsel, crumb", also "bread”), from Proto-Germanic *braud? (“cooked food, leavened bread”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?erw-, *b?rew- (“to boil, seethe”) (see brew). Alternatively, from Proto-Germanic *braudaz, *brauþaz (“broken piece, fragment”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?era- (“to split, beat, hew, struggle”) (see brittle). Perhaps a conflation of the two.
Cognate with Scots breid (“bread”), Saterland Frisian Brad (“bread”), West Frisian brea (“bread”), Dutch brood (“bread”), German Brot (“bread”), Danish and Norwegian brød (“bread”), Swedish bröd (“bread”), Icelandic brauð (“bread”), Albanian brydh (“I make crumbly, friable, soft”), Latin frustum (“crumb”).
Eclipsed non-native Middle English payn (“bread”), borrowed from Old French pain (“bread”).
Noun
bread (countable and uncountable, plural breads)
- (uncountable) A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
- (countable) Any variety of bread.
- (slang, US) Money.
- Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
Usage notes
- loaf, slice, piece, hunk are some of the words used to count bread.
Synonyms
- (slang: money): dough, folding stuff, lolly, paper, spondulicks, wonga
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: brede
- ? Fiji Hindi: bareed
Translations
Verb
bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)
- (transitive) to coat with breadcrumbs
Derived terms
- breaded (adjective)
- breading (noun)
Translations
See also
- loaf
Etymology 2
From Middle English brede, from Old English br?du (“breadth, width, extent”), from Proto-Germanic *braid?? (“breadth”). Cognate with Scots brede, breid (“breadth”), Dutch breedte (“breadth”), German Breite (“breadth”), Swedish bredd (“breadth”), Icelandic breidd (“breadth”).
Noun
bread (plural breads)
- (obsolete or Britain dialectal, Scotland) Breadth.
Derived terms
- waybread
Etymology 3
From Middle English breden, from Old English br?dan (“to make broad, extend, spread, stretch out; be extended, rise, grow”), from Proto-Germanic *braidijan? (“to make broad, broaden”).
Verb
bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)
- (transitive, dialectal) To make broad; spread.
References
Etymology 4
Variant of braid, from Middle English breden, from Old English br?dan, bre?dan (“to braid”).
Alternative forms
- breathe, brede
Verb
bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)
- (transitive) To form in meshes; net.
Noun
bread (plural breads)
- A piece of embroidery; a braid.
Anagrams
- Bader, Beard, Breda, Debar, Debra, arbed, ardeb, bared, beard, debar
Old English
Alternative forms
- br?od
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *braud?, whence also Old Frisian br?d (West Frisian brea), Old Saxon br?d (German Low German Broot, Brot), Dutch brood, Old High German br?t (German Brot), Old Norse brauð and Icelandic brauð (Swedish bröd).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bræ???d/
Noun
br?ad n (nominative plural br?adru) (rare, chiefly Anglian)
- bit, piece, morsel, crumb
- bread (foodstuff)
Declension
Synonyms
- (bread): hl?f
Derived terms
- b?obr?ad
- picgbr?ad
Descendants
- Middle English: bred, brede, breed, brid, bread, bræd
- English: bread
- Sranan Tongo: brede
- ? Fiji Hindi: bareed
- Scots: breid
- Yola: breed
- English: bread
Spanish
Verb
bread
- (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of brear.
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