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Sweetbread. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Sweetbread (Also formerly as two words.) [app. f. SWEET a. + BREAD sb., but the reason for the name is not obvious.]

1   1.  The pancreas, or the thymus gland, of an animal, esp. as used for food (distinguished respectively as heart, stomach, or belly sweetbread and throat, gullet, or neck sweetbread): esteemed a delicacy.

2 1565.  Cooper, Thesaurus, Animellæ, the sweete breade in a hogge.

3 1578.  Banister, Hist. Man, VII. 90. A certaine Glandulous part, called Thimus, which in Calues, and such others creatures, is most pleasaunt to be eaten. I suppose we call it the sweete bread.

4 1598.  Chapman, Iliad, I. 458. [They] Cut off their thighes dubd with the fatte,… And pricke the sweetebreads thereupon.

5 a. 1613.  Overbury, A Wife, etc. (1630), L ij b. For an inward bruise, Lambstones and sweet-breads are his onely Sperma Ceti.

6 1653.  H. Cogan, trans. Pinto’s Trav., xxx. (1663), 121. Some sell their pigs, and some again sell nothing but the chitterlings, the sweet-breads, the blood, and the haslets.

7 1791.  Boswell, Johnson, 9 May, an. 1778. He gave her her choice of a chicken, [or] a sweetbread.

8 1797–8.  Lamb, Ros. Gray, xi. Wks. 1903, I. 26. I ordered my dinner—green peas and a sweetbread.

9 1824.  in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1825), 281. We’ve gullet-sweetbreads, veined with red.

10 1846.  Soyer, Gastron. Regen., 681. If I cannot meet with heart sweetbreads, I in general satisfy myself with the throats.

11 1884.  G. Allen, Philistia, III. 156. Oysters, game, sweetbrands, red mullet, any little delicacy of that sort.

12   † 2.  A bribe, douceur. Obs. slang or colloq.

13 a. 1670.  Hacket, Abp. Williams, II. (1693), 163. I obtain’d that of the fellow,… with a few Sweetbreads that I gave him out of my Purse.

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