Définition de « damper » en Anglais

noun

1. Something that damps or checks:

2. (countable, uncountable, chiefly New Zealand, Australia) Bread made from a basic recipe of flour, water, milk, and salt, but without yeast.

   • 1827, Peter Cunningham, Two Years in New South Wales, ii.190, quoted in G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, 1978, →ISBN, The farm-men usually bake their flour into flat cakes, which they call dampers, and cook these in the ashes.

3. (UK, slang, obsolete) A shop till.

adjective

1. comparative form of damp: more damp