daily-breader

[ dey-lee-bred-er ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

British.

a commuter.

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Word History and Origins

First recorded in 1905–10; from the phrase daily bread (in the Lord's Prayer in the Gospels of Matthew 6:11 and Luke 11:3) + -er ¹

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Example Sentences

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The daily-breader, the journeyman, might envy this tortured dignitary his title, his chain, his rank at Court, his important office, to which he had climbed so pertinaciously, only to wear himself out in it: but not when these all meant the concomitant of his illness.

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daily daily double

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