Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The thymus gland or pancreas of a young animal, especially a calf or lamb, used for food.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The pancreas of an animal, used for food; also, the thymus gland so used. Butchers distinguish the two, the former being the stomach-sweetbread, the latter the neck-sweetbread or throat-sweetbread.
- n. A bribe or douceur.
- n. A part of the lobster taken from the thorax for canning.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck sweetbread or throat sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See pancreas, and thymus.
- n. (Anat.) The pancreas.
WordNet 3.0
- n. edible glands of an animal
Examples
“This is the gland which in the calf is known as the sweetbread and is a delicious and valued article of food.”
“The sweetbread is the pancreas; now a deficient pancreatic action is supposed to play a great part in consumption and other wasting diseases.”
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
“sweetbread" -- a gland nearly as large as the hand, lying behind the stomach.”
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
“But I have had a good dinner of "sweetbread," and expect a sleep by and by.”
“Food blogger C.rol Blymire wrote on April 1 a lengthy entry detailing her new, 12-week mobile food venture that was set to begin April 3 in Washington, D.C. Her food truck would continue on to various U.S. cities, where she was to have served curiously eccentric menu items such as sweetbread and lobster popsicle, falafel liquid shot and cupcake straw.”
“Gone are the days when the word "sweetbread" incited a wrinkling of the nose, or eating a terrine made from a slow-simmered hog's head was the feat of a culinary daredevil.”
“Here you'll find Arizona honey duck confit with an extra wickedly delicious tequila soufflé and don't miss out on the blue corn crusted sweetbread which is something else indeed.”
“He started with ganzuki, the steamed sweetbread he first helped make as a child.”
The Wall Street Journal: Making Home Sweet Again: After Tsunami, a Baker Finds Purpose
“Knowing what an office is does not shed light on what an officer does, even though "officer" has the word "office" in it, just as sweetbread is not sweet and it's not bread.”
The Huffington Post: Five Ways Your Bible Translation Distorts the Original Meaning of the Text
“I remember sweetbread dishes I ate years and years ago as if it were yesterday and lament them.”
The Huffington Post: Karine Bakhoum: Give Us This Day Our Daily Sweetbreads
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Interesting words
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Food
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