brown bread

English

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Noun

brown bread (usually uncountable, plural brown breads)

1. Bread with a brown colour as distinct from white bread, wholemeal, granary or other specific types of bread.
2. Whole-wheat bread.

   Synonym: wheat bread

Related terms

• white bread
• wholemeal bread

 

Translations

type of bread

• Arabic: خُبْز أَسْمَر m (ḵubz ʔasmar)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黑麵包／黑面包 (hēimiànbāo), 稞麥麵包／稞麦面包 (kēmài miànbāo)

• Estonian: must leib
• Finnish: tumma leipä
• French: pain complet (fr) m
• Irish: arán donn m, arán rua m, caiscín m
• Korean: 갈색빵 (galsaekppang)
• Maltese: ħobż ismar
• Mongolian: хар талх (xar talx)
• Polish: ciemne pieczywo n
• Romanian: pâine neagră (ro) f
• Russian: чёрный хлеб m (čórnyj xleb)
• Scottish Gaelic: aran-donn m
• Tagalog: kayumangging tinapay
• Vietnamese: bánh mì nâu

Adjective

brown bread (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic, Cockney rhyming slang) dead
   • 2012, Graham Masterton, The Doorkeepers:

     I thought I was ready for the cold cook then. I swear it. I really thought I was brown bread.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:dead