English Dictionary

fairy bread

名詞

オーストラリア英語 ニュージーランド英語 不可算名詞

(Australia, New Zealand) A snack made of buttered bread sprinkled with hundreds and thousands.

日本語の意味

オーストラリアやニュージーランドで親しまれているおやつ。バターを塗ったパンに、カラフルな砂糖菓子（スプリンクル）を散らしたもの。

At the children's party, we served fairy bread, and it was gone within minutes.

子ども向けのパーティーで、バターを塗ったパンにカラフルな砂糖粒を振りかけたお菓子を出したら、数分でなくなりました。

意味（1）

(Australia, New Zealand) A snack made of buttered bread sprinkled with hundreds and thousands.

‘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.