SWEETBREAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sweetbread mean? 

• SWEETBREAD (noun)
  The noun SWEETBREAD has 1 sense:

1. edible glands of an animal

  Familiarity information: SWEETBREAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWEETBREAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Edible glands of an animal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

sweetbread; sweetbreads

Hypernyms ("sweetbread" is a kind of...):

organs; variety meat (edible viscera of a butchered animal)

 Context examples 

Now there is nothing grandmama loves better than sweetbread and asparagus—so she was rather disappointed, but we agreed we would not speak of it to any body, for fear of its getting round to dear Miss Woodhouse, who would be so very much concerned!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The baked apples and biscuits, excellent in their way, you know; but there was a delicate fricassee of sweetbread and some asparagus brought in at first, and good Mr. Woodhouse, not thinking the asparagus quite boiled enough, sent it all out again.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)