gutbread

/ˈɡʌtbɹɛd/

Etymology

From gut + bread.

gutbread means the pancreas, especially the pancreas of livestock used as food. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 91 out of 100.

gutbread is pronounced /ˈɡʌtbɹɛd/.

noun

The pancreas, especially the pancreas of livestock used as food.“Having spent many years in the slaughterhouse, I can perhaps enlighten your correspondent as to what sweetbreads are. The "throat-bread" is undoubtedly the thyroid, and the "gut-bread" the pancreas. […] But I was informed that the gut-bread, i.e., the sweetbread of dictionaries and doctors, is "given to paupers or thrown away."”