"white bread" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more white bread [comparative], most white bread [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} white bread (comparative more white bread, superlative most white bread)
  1. (chiefly US, colloquial, derogatory) Bland, boring; flavorless. Tags: US, colloquial, derogatory Categories (topical): Breads Synonyms: conventional, bourgeois, wonderbread, boring, insipid
    Sense id: en-white_bread-en-adj-Ek---hC9 Disambiguation of Breads: 13 3 40 44 Categories (other): American English
  2. (US ethnic slur) Of or relating to white people. Tags: US, ethnic, slur Synonyms: Caucasian, wonderbread
    Sense id: en-white_bread-en-adj-P8qISaPu Categories (other): American English, English ethnic slurs
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Noun

Forms: white breads [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} white bread (usually uncountable, plural white breads)
  1. Bread made from white flour. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Breads Translations (bread made from white flour): pa blanc [masculine] (Catalan), 白麵包 (Chinese Cantonese), 白面包 (baak⁶ min⁶ baau¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 白麵包 (Chinese Mandarin), 白面包 (báimiànbāo) (Chinese Mandarin), wittebrood [neuter] (Dutch), sai (Estonian), vaalea leipä (Finnish), valkoinen leipä (Finnish), pain blanc [masculine] (French), pain de mie [masculine] (French), Weißbrot [neuter] (German), Weissbrot [Liechtenstein, Switzerland, neuter] (German), λευκό ψωμί (lefkó psomí) [neuter] (Greek), άσπρο ψωμί (áspro psomí) [neuter] (Greek), fehér kenyér (Hungarian), Weisbrod [neuter] (Hunsrik), hveitibrauð [neuter] (Icelandic), franskbrauð [neuter] (Icelandic), roti putih (Indonesian), arán bán [masculine] (Irish), arán geal [masculine] (Irish), pane bianco [masculine] (Italian), 白パン (shiropan) (alt: しろパン) (Japanese), baltmaize [feminine] (Latvian), Stuten [German-Low-German, masculine] (Low German), Stuut [German-Low-German, masculine] (Low German), ħobż abjad [plural] (Maltese), Wittbroot [neuter] (Plautdietsch), białe pieczywo [neuter] (Polish), pão branco [masculine] (Portuguese), pâine albă [feminine] (Romanian), бе́лый хлеб (bélyj xleb) (Russian), pan blanco [masculine] (Spanish), vitt bröd [neuter] (Swedish), puting tinapay (Tagalog), bánh mì trắng (Vietnamese), bara can [masculine] (Welsh), bara gwyn [masculine] (Welsh), ווײַסברויט (vaysbroyt) [neuter] (Yiddish), בולקע (bulke) [feminine] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-white_bread-en-noun-1u9fR9vU Disambiguation of Breads: 13 3 40 44 Disambiguation of 'bread made from white flour': 88 12
  2. (US, ethnic slur, uncommon) A white person, a person of European descent, a person who 'acts white'. Tags: US, ethnic, slur, uncommon, uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Breads Synonyms: whitey, Caucasian, white person, white-bread [adjective], whitebread, whitebread [ethnic, noun, slur]
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          "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": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Bland, boring; flavorless."
      ],
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        ],
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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"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
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        "derogatory"
      ]
    },
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        "American English",
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "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": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of or relating to white people."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US ethnic slur) Of or relating to white people."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Caucasian"
        },
        {
          "word": "wonderbread"
        }
      ],
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        "US",
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      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "word": "white-bread"
    },
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      "word": "whitebread"
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    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "white bread"
  ],
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}

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