crispbread

See also: crisp bread

English

Round crispbread directly out of package.

Rectangular pieces of crispbread.

Etymology

From crisp +‎ bread.

Noun

crispbread (countable and uncountable, plural crispbreads)

1. A type of flat, dry bread or cracker, usually baked of rye flour, popular in the Nordic countries.
   • 2007 March 9, Michiko Kakutani, “Ladies’ Choice: Snooker or Security?”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     She describes how Irina, left at home during one of Lawrence’s extended business trips, feels herself turning “into one of those dry Scandinavian crispbreads that never have enough salt.”

Translations

Nordic-style flat dry bread

• Czech: knäckebrot (cs) m
• Danish: knækbrød
• Dutch: knäckebröd (nl)
• Estonian: näkileib
• Faroese: knekkbreyð
• Finnish: näkkileipä (fi), näkkäri (fi)
• German: Knäckebrot (de) n, Knäcke (de) n
• Icelandic: hrökkbrauð (is) n, hleifabrauð n
• Ingrian: rootsinleipä
• Irish: arán brioscánach m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Knackbrood n

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: knekkebrød

  Nynorsk: knekkebrød

• Russian: хле́бе́ц (ru) m (xlébéc), хрустя́щий хле́бе́ц m (xrustjáščij xlébéc), суха́рь (ru) m (suxárʹ)
• Swedish: knäckebröd (sv) n, spisbröd (sv) n, hårdbröd n, hårt bröd n, knäcke n
• Turkish: gevrek ekmek
• Welsh: bara crimp m

Anagrams

• crab spider, crabspider, præscrib'd, spider crab