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Definition of Bread-stick
1. Noun. A crisp stick-shaped roll; often served with soup.
Generic synonyms: Bread, Breadstuff, Staff Of Life
Specialized synonyms: Grissino
Definition of Bread-stick
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of breadstick) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bread-stick
| breacher breachers breaches breaching breachy bread bread-bin bread-line bread-stick (current term) bread-worship | bread and circuses bread bag bread bags bread bin bread bins bread board bread box bread crumb |
Literary usage of Bread-stick
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1854)
"The other, a shorter one, used when but few remain to select from: U Eggs, butter,
cheese, bread, Stick, stock, stone dead!” EGR I beg to send you another ..."
2. The Boston Cooking School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics by Mass Boston Cooking School (Boston, Boston Cooking School (Boston, Mass.) (1905)
"Set to rise in a bread-stick pan. Bake when light. ... The proper pan gives a
perfectly round bread stick. Baked on a sheet, one side is flat. ..."
3. The Counting-out Rhymes of Children: Their Antiquity, Origin, and Wide by Henry Carrington Bolton (1888)
"Eggs, butter, cheese, bread, Stick, stock, stone dead ! FWPJago, West of Cornwall,
England. 594. Eny, meny, mony, my, Busky, hady, ..."
4. Practical Food Economy by Alice Gitchell Kirk (1917)
"Sift dry ingredients all together, add butter and milk to hot grits, and add egg
well beaten. Bake in greased bread-stick pans until brown and crisp. ..."
5. The Western Antiquary by William Henry Kearley Wright (1884)
"... Hugga, bucea, bau, Eggs, butter, cheese, bread, Stick, stock, stone, dead."
In West Cornwall Miss MA Courtney gives it thus :— " Ena, mena, mona, mi. ..."
6. Cornish Notes & Queries: (first Series) by Cornish Telegraph, Peter Penn (1906)
"... butter, cheese, bread, Stick, stack, stone, dead, OUT spells out. Another version
in use fifty years ago in the neighbourhood of Hayle was Ena mena mona ..."
7. Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher by Charles Madison Curry (1921)
"... He stepped in a puddle, Up to his middle, And never went there again. 22 Eggs,
butter, cheese, bread, Stick, stock, stone dead, Stick him up, ..."
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