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breadstick

breadstick

11 1.0
A long thin crisp stick of bread often served with soup or salad
  • noun
  • /ˈbrɛdˌstɪk/
translation icon : palito de pan
  • The waiter brought a basket of breadsticks to our table as an appetizer.
  • sesame breadsticks
  • salad and breadsticks
  • cheese breadsticks

This is sweet mustard ranch pretzels, sour cream and onion cashews, and mustard breadsticks.

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Examples

  • He's got some orange juice, he's got some hummus and breadsticks, some grapes and some rice cakes.

  • Want a breadstick?

  • And then one day I think we're at a Italian restaurant that brought out a breadstick and he tried it.

  • I thought it was a breadstick.

  • Well, you could have a breadstick.

  • How much I really want to eat that breadstick.

  • The 'cheese' inside the breadstick is approximately three bites.

    Blog text (32)
  • The other busboy is eating a breadstick.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • I was told these breadsticks would be unlimited.

  • The lunch included one cheese-stuffed breadstick, a small dollop of marinara sauce, three apple slices, and some raw spinach.

    Blog text (32)

Synonyms

sop
vsbreadstick
  • Archaic
9.1

A piece of bread used to dip into soup or sauce

focuses on being long thin and crisp served as a starter not for dipping

How Crisp

cracker
  • US
114 1.0
breadstick
11 1.0
baguette
22 2.6
soft roll
1 1.3

Surface Forms

breadstick singular
breadsticks plural

Morphology

breadstick = bread + stick (transparent) = bread + stick

The meaning is directly and predictably derived from the combination of 'bread' and 'stick' (a long thin piece of bread).

Etymology

The word breadstick is simply the two common words bread and stick put together — literally a 'stick' of 'bread'. So the name helps you remember that a breadstick is a long, thin, baked piece of bread often served with soup, salad, or as an appetizer.