tops-and-bottoms

English

Noun

tops-and-bottoms pl (plural only)

  1. (dated) Small rolls of dough, baked, cut in half, and browned in an oven, formerly used as food for infants.
    • c. 1843, Thomas Hood, Miss Kilmansegg and her Precious Egg
      'Tis said her tops-and-bottoms were gilt.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tops-and-bottoms in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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