spoon bread

1. 1.

   soft bread made of cornmeal and sometimes rice or hominy; must be served with a spoon (chiefly southern)

   Synonymsbatter bread

   Broadercornbread

Questions about spoon bread

What does spoon bread mean?

spoon bread means "soft bread made of cornmeal and sometimes rice or hominy; must be served with a spoon (chiefly southern)".

What is another word for spoon bread?

Close synonyms include batter bread. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spoon bread a common word?

spoon bread is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.