Meanings
- AustraliaNew ZealanduncountableA snack made of buttered bread sprinkled with hundreds and thousands.
Robert cleared his throat. ‘Um, one of the airline hostesses took a shine to Jack and made him some fairy bread. You know, bread with hundreds and thousands? He was pretty happy with that’.
2005, Kris Webb, Kathy Wilson, Inheriting Jack, page 162 more examples
‘I was a fairy-bread hogger at parties,’ he told me seriously, his eyes immediately changing. ‘I used to put them in my pockets or hide them wherever I could, until one day I was exposed when my host handed me my parka and four slices of fairy bread fell out. I was seven years old and up till this day if I ever see fairy bread I palpitate and realise that psychologically I will never be cured.’ I laughed at his theatrics and took the Tim Tam he offered me.
1990, Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi, unnumbered pageI notice that the rest of the party food has just about disappeared. All that is left are a few puddles of congealing tomato sauce, a couple of smashed meringues and the dried-out crusts from fifty-odd triangles of fairy bread.
2004, Ilsa Evans, Drip Dry, page 86
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 彩糖麵包 /彩糖面包
- 彩糖麵包 /彩糖面包 (cǎitáng miànbāo)snack
Finnish strösselileipä
- strösselileipäsnack
Cite this entry
fairy bread. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fairy%20bread
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