gutbread

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gutbread

/ˈɡʌtbɹɛd/ US, UK

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From gut + bread.

noun gutbreads · gut-bread · gut bread

The pancreas, especially the pancreas of livestock used as food. 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 "give
Similar: pancreas, belly sweetbread, heart sweetbread, stomach sweetbread, sweetbread

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@misc{gutbread_2026,
  title = {gutbread},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gutbread},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}