What's the difference between sweetbread and sweetbreads?
Sweetbread
Definition:
(n.) Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, / throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus.
(n.) The pancreas.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sweetbreads with mustard and oyster sauce, fried liquorice-salt piparra peppers and cuttlefish in an ají alioli – it’s tapas with imagination.
(2) In Uganda, they feasted on queen termites, which are fatty – like little sausages – with the texture of sweetbreads, the fragrance of foie gras and a delicate sweetness.
(3) You eat her burgers and her scotch eggs, her sweetbreads and her chowders, and all you can think is that you will never taste their like again anywhere else.
(4) In his book (chapters range from A for anchovy to V for veal) he proselytises on the tasteful use of non-trendy ingredients - kidneys, liver, sweetbreads and brains each merit a chapter.
(5) The menu (mains from £15) changes daily but summer fare has included sweetbreads, squid, duck hearts, samphire and pickled gooseberries.