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- noun Australia, New Zealand An Australian/New Zealand
snack made of buttered bread sprinkled withhundreds and thousands .
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vendingmachine commented on the word fairy bread
...bread sprinkled with hundreds and thousands of what?!
December 3, 2022
alexz commented on the word fairy bread
Wikipedia has "hundreds and thousands" being those tiny colored candy ball sprinkles.
'Nonpareils are a decorative confectionery of tiny balls made with sugar and starch, traditionally an opaque white but now available in many colors. They are also known as Hundreds and Thousands in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand1' - wikipedia
Wordnik's got the definition hundreds and thousands
December 5, 2022