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},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "bread made from white flour",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "hveitibrauð"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "bread made from white flour",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "franskbrauð"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "bread made from white flour",
"word": "roti putih"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "bread made from white flour",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "arán bán"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "bread made from white flour",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "arán geal"
},
{
"alt": "しろパン",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "shiropan",
"sense": "bread made from white flour",
"word": "白パン"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "bread made from white flour",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "baltmaize"
},
{
"code": "nds-de",
"lang": "Low German",
"sense": "bread made from white flour",
"tags": [
"German-Low-German",
"masculine"
],
"word": "Stuten"
},
{
"code": "nds-de",
"lang": "Low German",
"sense": "bread made from white flour",
"tags": [
"German-Low-German",
"masculine"
],
"word": "Stuut"
},
{
"code": "mt",
"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "bread made from white flour",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "ħobż abjad"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "bread made from white flour",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Wittbroot"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "bread made from white flour",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "białe pieczywo"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "bread made from white flour",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pão branco"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "bread made from white flour",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pâine albă"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bélyj xleb",
"sense": "bread made from white flour",
"word": "бе́лый хлеб"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "bread made from white flour",
"word": "puting tinapay"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "bread made from white flour",
"word": "bánh mì trắng"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "bread made from white flour",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bara can"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "bread made from white flour",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bara gwyn"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "vaysbroyt",
"sense": "bread made from white flour",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ווײַסברויט"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "bulke",
"sense": "bread made from white flour",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "בולקע"
}
],
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"white bread"
],
"word": "white bread"
}
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"form": "more white bread",
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{
"ref": "1983, Billy Joel (lyrics and music), “Uptown Girl”",
"text": "She's been living in her white bread world / As long as anyone with hot blood can / And now she's looking for a downtown man",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1997 August 20, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, “Weight Gain 4000”, in South Park, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Mayor McDaniels",
"text": "This is our chance to make a name for ourselves; to show that we're not just some piss-ant white-bread mountain town.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022 May 11, Alexandra Alter, quoting Kim Stanley Robinson, “A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story Is the One Facing Us’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
"text": "He’s always thought of himself as boring, “a white-bread suburban househusband.”",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Bland, boring; flavorless."
],
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]
],
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"(chiefly US, colloquial, derogatory) Bland, boring; flavorless."
],
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{
"word": "conventional"
},
{
"word": "bourgeois"
},
{
"word": "wonderbread"
},
{
"word": "boring"
},
{
"word": "insipid"
}
],
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"derogatory"
]
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"English ethnic slurs",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1993 November 15, Eric Pooley, “Can Giuliani Pull It Together?”, in New York, volume 26, number 45, page 53",
"text": "[Rudy] Giuliani is hedging a bit, but he's not the white-bread cop so many blacks expect him to be.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"word": "Caucasian"
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"word": "wonderbread"
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