panada

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Spanish panada, Italian panata (panada).

Noun

panada (countable and uncountable, plural panadas)

  1. (cooking) A dish made by boiling bread in water and combining the pulp with milk, stock, butter or sometimes egg yolks. [from 16th c.]
  2. (obsolete, figurative) Something blandly nourishing; pap. [18th–19th c.]
    • 1789, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana, 8 May:
      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, 12.12:
      [They] swallow, without flinching, all the theological panada with which she may think fit to cram them.
  3. A thick paste or sauce made from boiling flour or breadcrumbs. [from 19th c.]

Catalan

Etymology

pa + -ada

Pronunciation

Noun

panada f (plural panades)

  1. Crops too wet to harvest.
  2. A savoury pie or turnover.

See also

References

Portuguese

Participle

panada f sg

  1. feminine singular of panado
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