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sourfaux

noun

Etymology

From sour + faux. Coined by Chris Young, the coordinator of the Real Bread Campaign, in 2015.

  1. borrowed from Faux
  2. formed as sourfaux — “sour + faux”

Definitions

  1. A kind of bread that is labelled as sourdough but actually contains cheaper ingredients…

    A kind of bread that is labelled as sourdough but actually contains cheaper ingredients and is prepared in a way that requires less time.

    • But it is now under scrutiny in a government review over the longstanding claims that a “sourfaux” scandal is undermining the traditional genuine loaf.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sourfaux. 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