barracouta loaf

noun

Etymology

After the regional name for a thin, metre-long fish, from the shape of the loaf and its rough crust, thought to resemble the back of the fish.

Definitions

  1. A long, narrow loaf, often indented in the middle so that it can be broken in two.

    • Alice was making water-cress sandwiches. She had a lump of butter on the table, a barracouta loaf, and the cresses tumbled in a white cloth.
    • As Clarry remembered we were a big family—a twenty-five double barracouta loaves and fifteen pints a week family.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for barracouta loaf. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA