Hey you folk over sixty,when we were young,what did mum mean when she said (eat up your buppy bread ) .)?

Question

So where does the word buppy come from,I know It means bread and butter,but where does it originate from,Its certainly not rhyming slang, so what is it?

Answer 1

Buppy is another word for bread. It is like saying a bread-and-iffit sarnie, or a bread sarnie. Originates from the days when there was nothing to put in the bread. So it was bread and bread.
(But hey - I only recently turned 60!)

Answer 2

we had buppies, they were either sandwiches or bread dipped in bacon fat ie ' dipped buppy' but only used as young children.

Answer 3

bread and buppy isn't that bread and butter

bread and pullit was what my old nan always said was for dinner, either that or run round the table.
takes you back!!!

Answer 4

Well I never heard the word before so it's a new one on me!
Bread and IT, or bread and dripping was what I often got as a wee-un. Often just before being sent up the wooden hill to bedfordshire! lol

Answer 5

i'm not sure but i think it originated in the West country