quick bread

noun

Etymology

From quick + bread.

  1. derived from *bʰera-✻ — “to split, beat, hew, struggle”
  2. inherited from *braudaz✻
  3. derived from *bʰrewh₁-✻ — “to boil; to brew”
  4. inherited from *braudą✻ — “bread”
  5. inherited from *braud✻
  6. inherited from brēad — “fragment, bit, morsel, crumb", also "bread”
  7. inherited from bred
  8. compounded as quick bread — “quick + bread”

Definitions

  1. A type of bread which is leavened with agents other than yeast (such as baking soda plus…

    A type of bread which is leavened with agents other than yeast (such as baking soda plus an acid) and thus rises more quickly.

The neighborhood

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