breadstuff

English

Etymology

bread +‎ stuff

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɹɛdˌstʌf/

Noun

breadstuff (countable and uncountable, plural breadstuffs)

1. Any of the ingredients for making bread, especially as commodities in trade and especially the principal ones, namely, flour and meal or the grain with which to mill it (such as wheat, oats, rye, or any other cereal grain).
   • 1995, Craig Canine, Dream Reaper: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High-Stakes World of Modern Agriculture (Sloan Technology Series), Knopf, →ISBN, page 81:

     [Isaac] Friedlander became the Michael Milken of a new market: California's emerging export trade in breadstuffs.

2. Bread or breadlike baked goods of any sort.