panada
English
Noun
panada (countable and uncountable, plural panadas)
- (cooking) A dish made by boiling bread in water and combining the pulp with milk, stock, butter or sometimes egg yolks. [from 16th c.]
- (obsolete, figurative) Something blandly nourishing; pap. [18th–19th c.]
- 1789 May 8, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:
- He paid his Debts, call'd in some single Acquaintance, told him he was dying & drove away that Panada Conversation which Friends think proper to administer at Sick Bed-Sides, with becoming Steadiness.
- 1822, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, section 12.12:
- [They] swallow, without flinching, all the theological panada with which she may think fit to cram them.
- A thick paste or sauce made from boiling flour or breadcrumbs. [from 19th c.]
Catalan
References
- “panada”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
Portuguese
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