gutbread
/ˈɡʌtbɹɛd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Having spent many years in the slaughterhouse, I can perhaps enlighten your correspondent as to what sweetbreads are. The "throat-bread" is undoubtedly the thyroid, and the "gut-bread" the pancreas. […] But I was informed that the gut-bread, i.e., the sweetbread of dictionaries and doctors, is "given to paupers or thrown away.""
- "(3) The throat bread (thyroid gland) (4) The heart bread (thymus gland) Biggr } These form a "set" of sweetbreads. (5) The gut bread (pancreas)"
- "The feeding of raw pancreas has been advocated and claimed to be effective but the difficulty of ensuring a regular supply of fresh gutbreads, quite apart from doubts as to the effect of gastric digestion, makes this treatment of dubious value."
- "Gerrard discloses that the pancreas is sometimes substituted for sweetbread and is referred to as gutbread in English slaughter houses."
- "The brownish-yellow lobulated pancreas is called ‘gut bread’ or ‘stomach sweetbread’ and weighs approximately 170 g in market-weight beef animals and 85 g in sheep and pigs."
- "The summarized data from various states show that in the most contaminated regions the incidence rate of gut-bread cancer rose ten times during 1991–1994 if compared with the period of 1986–1990 (Radiation level..., 2000, par. 258, p. 52)."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɡʌtbɹɛd/
- British English: /ˈɡʌtbɹɛd/