🌾 Flour or grain 🍞 Baked bread

breadstuff

5.8

Flour or grain that people use to make bread

noun
/ˈbrɛdˌstʌf/

Archaic

: harina

I bought some breadstuff from the local market.

Examples

During the war, the supply of breadstuff became severely limited.
The baker uses fresh breadstuff for all his loaves.
The farmer sold his breadstuff at the local market.
Wheat is the most common type of breadstuff in many cultures.
The bakery specializes in various types of breadstuff, including whole wheat and sourdough.
In her cooking class, she taught how to make delicious recipes using different breadstuff.
The farmer sold his breadstuff at the market, showcasing an array of grains and flours.

Synonyms

flour

vsbreadstuff

197 1.0

A fine powder made from grain used to make bread and cakes

is a general category that covers both fine powder and coarser grain forms

meal

vsbreadstuff

133 4.6

Grain ground into small pieces used for cooking or eating

includes finer milled powders as well as these coarser forms

Surface Forms

breadstuff singular

breadstuffs plural

Morphology

breadstuff = bread + stuff (transparent) = bread + stuff

The compound 'bread' + 'stuff' directly denotes material associated with bread, so learners can derive the sense of 'materials used for making bread'.

Etymology

Breadstuff is made from the simple parts bread and stuff, and stuff means 'materials' or 'things'. So it originally called the flour, meal, or grain used to make bread.