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Bread-basket. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Bibliographic Record Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022. Bread-basket subs. phr. (common).—The stomach: see BREAD-ROOM.

1   ENGLISH SYNONYMS.  Bread-room; dumpling-depôt; victualling-office; porridge-bowl.

2   FRENCH SYNONYMS.  Panetière (cf. pantière = the mouth):panier au pain (a literal translation); jabot: se remplir le jabot = to have a ‘blow out’): halle aux croûtes = Crust Hall; also, a baker’s shop; place d’armes; soute au pain.

3   1753.  FOOTE, The Englishman in Paris, I. Another came up to second him, but I let drive at the Mark, made the Soup-Maigre rumble in his BREAD-BASKET, and laid him sprawling.

4   1772.  BRIDGES, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, 165.        Then threw his stick, which with a thump On his BREAD-BASKET hit him plump.

5   1819.  T. MOORE, Tom Crib’s Memorial to Congress, 18.        Neat milling this Round—what with clouts on the nob, Home hits in the BREAD-BASKET, clicks in the gob.

6   1821.  The Fancy, I. 255. In the fourth round he came in all abroad, and got a doubler in the BREAD-BASKET.

7   1821.  W. T. MONCRIEFF, Tom and Jerry, iii., 1. Jerry. Now, doctor, take care of your BREAD-BASKET—eyes right, look to your napper.

8   1849.  C. KINGSLEY, Alton Locke, xxxiii. A heavy blow was struck on the panel from the inside, and the point of a sharp instrument driven right through, close to my knees, with the exclamation, ‘What do you think o’ that now in a policeman’s BREAD-BASKET?’

9   1856.  C. READE, It Is Never Too Late to Mend, lxx. When you can’t fill the BREAD-BASKET, shut it. Go to sleep till the Southern Cross comes out again.

10   1876.  C. H. WALL, trans. Molière, I., 194. And get as a reward an ugly piece of cold steel right through my BREAD-BASKET.

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