white bread

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white bread

noun white breads · white-bread · whitebread

uncountable, usually Bread made from white flour. Yes—just become a Communist, and things get all right. Deny your Christ and they will give you white bread in plenty and clothes to wear—" He would hold his breath, would wonder and question: "What is white bread? And who is Christ?"
idiomatic, often, uncountable, usually A storebought, mass-produced, inexpensive type of such bread that is very soft and is usually in the Pullman loaf shape. There's a pretty big difference between American cheese on white bread and sharp cheddar on French bread.
US, derogatory, ethnic, often, slang, slur A middle-class white person (person of European descent), or a person who 'acts white'. Teyshawn wanted to yell whitebreads did it—fucking whitebreads.

adjective more white bread · most white bread · white-bread · whitebread

US, colloquial, derogatory Bland, boring; flavorless. She's been living in her white bread world / As long as anyone with hot blood can / And now she's looking for a downtown man
Similar: conventional, bourgeois, wonderbread, banal, basic, mindless, beat, blah, commonplace, bland, boring, cold
US, derogatory, ethnic, often, slang, slur Characteristic of or relating to middle-class white people. [Rudy] Giuliani is hedging a bit, but he's not the white-bread cop so many blacks expect him to be.
Similar: wonderbread

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noun bread made from white flour

Español	pan blanco
日本語	白パン shiropan
中文	白麵包 /白面包 báimiànbāo
Português	pão branco
Français	pain blanc, pain de mie
Deutsch	Weißbrot
Italiano	pane bianco
Ελληνικά	λευκό ψωμί lefkó psomí, άσπρο ψωμί áspro psomí
Română	pâine albă
Русский	бе́лый хлеб bélyj xleb
Tiếng Việt	bánh mì trắng

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@misc{white_bread_2026,
  title = {white bread},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/white%20bread},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}