Gutbread
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The pancreas, especially the pancreas of livestock used as food.
"Having spent many years in the slaughterhouse, I can perhaps enlighten your correspondent as to what sweetbreads are. The "throat-bread" is undoubtedly the thyroid, and the "gut-bread" the pancreas. […] But I was informed that the gut-bread, i.e., the sweetbread of dictionaries and doctors, is "given to paupers or thrown away.""
Example
More examples"Having spent many years in the slaughterhouse, I can perhaps enlighten your correspondent as to what sweetbreads are. The "throat-bread" is undoubtedly the thyroid, and the "gut-bread" the pancreas. […] But I was informed that the gut-bread, i.e., the sweetbread of dictionaries and doctors, is "given to paupers or thrown away.""
Etymology
From gut + bread.
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