daily breader

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Etymology

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From daily bread +‎ -er.

Noun

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daily breader (plural daily breaders)

  1. (British, archaic) A commuter.
    • 2000, Vic Mitchell, Keith Smith, Ealing to Slough, including the Heathrow Branch, Middleton Press, →ISBN:
      The early morning crowds [at a railway station] were known as "daily breaders", until the importation of the term "commuter" from the USA.