breadstuff
breadstuff · breadstuffs
Any of the ingredients for making bread, especially as commodities in trade and…Any of the ingredients for making bread, especially as commodities in trade and especially the principal ones, namely, flour and meal or the grain with which to mill it (such as wheat, oats, rye, or any other cereal grain).
/bɹɛdˌstʌf/
Meaning
2 senses(countable, uncountable)Any of the ingredients for making bread, especially as commodities in trade and especially the principal ones, namely, flour and meal or the grain with which to mill it (such as wheat, oats, rye, or any other cereal grain).
flour or meal or grain used in baking bread
(countable, uncountable)Bread or breadlike baked goods of any sort.
Origin
From bread + stuff.From bread + stuff.
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Forms
plural: breadstuffs| Singular | breadstuff |
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Synonyms
2 synonymsClose in meaning
- food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked:breadstaff of life
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable