zwieback

IPA: zwˈibæk

A usually sweetened bread enriched with eggs that is baked and then sliced and toasted until dry and crisp; considered easy to digest and therefore given to the ill and used as a teething food for toddlers.

Examples of "zwieback" in Sentences

She smelled like sweat and powder and wet zwieback.
Carefully made toast, "zwieback," and stale bread may be given to young children.
He can probably eat crusts of toast, zwieback, baby cookies, whatever, to get him used to the idea of solids.
Duh, “zwieback,” shudda knowed it were 2 sumfings…I only tukked a semester of Choimin in gradumicationary skul.
But Beethoven was intellectually brought up on Enlightenment zwieback, and while his curiosity kept him current with the likes of Schiller and Schlegel and Fichte and Herder, he always kept Immanuel Kant, the defender of rationalism as a particular light.
Beginning at the beginning and learning from the ground up was a long course for Bibbs at the sanitarium, with milk and "zwieback" as the basis of instruction; and the months were many and tiresome before he was considered near enough graduation to go for a walk leaning on a nurse and a cane.