shortbread

English

Round shortbread

Etymology

From short (“brittle, of pastry”) +‎ bread.

Pronunciation

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Noun

shortbread (countable and uncountable, plural shortbreads)

1. A type of biscuit (cookie), popular in Britain, traditionally made from one part sugar, two parts butter and three parts flour.

Derived terms

• double shortbread
• millionaire shortbread

 

Translations

biscuit

• Afrikaans: brosbrood
• Burmese: နံကထိုင် (my) (namka.htuing)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 奶油酥餅／奶油酥饼

  Mandarin: 奶油酥餅／奶油酥饼

• Dutch: zandkoekje (nl) n
• Finnish: pikkuleipä (fi)
• French: sablé (fr) m
• German: Butterkeks (de) m
• Hebrew: שורטברד
• Italian: frollino (it) m
• Japanese: ショートブレッド (ja) (shōtobureddo), サブレー (saburē)
• Kannada: ಗರುಗ ರೊಟ್ಟಿ (kn) (garuga roṭṭi), ಬೆಣ್ಣೆ ಬಿಸ್ಕತ್ತು (kn) (beṇṇe biskattu)
• Korean: 쇼트브레드 (syoteubeuredeu)
• Russian: песочное печенье (pesočnoje pečenʹje)
• Scots: shortbreid
• Swedish: mördegskaka

Further reading

• shortbread on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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