barracouta loaf

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English

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Etymology

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After the regional name for a thin, metre-long fish, from the shape of the loaf and its rough crust, thought to resemble the back of the fish.

Noun

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barracouta loaf (plural barracouta loaves)

  1. (New Zealand) A long, narrow loaf, often indented in the middle so that it can be broken in two.[1]
    • 1918, Katherine Mansfield, “Prelude”, in Bliss and Other Stories[2], Toronto: Macmillan, published 1920, page 53:
      Alice was making water-cress sandwiches. She had a lump of butter on the table, a barracouta loaf, and the cresses tumbled in a white cloth.
    • 2000, anonymous author, “Home Town”, in Gordon McLauchlan, editor, Morrieson’s Motel[3], Auckland: Tandem Press, page 199:
      As Clarry remembered we were a big family—a twenty-five double barracouta loaves and fifteen pints a week family.

References

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  1. ^ Elizabeth and Harry Orsman, The New Zealand Dictionary, Auckland: New House Publishers, 1994.[1]