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Barm vs Breadcake - What's the difference?

barm | breadcake |

As nouns the difference between barm and breadcake

is that barm is (obsolete except in dialects) bosom, lap or barm can be foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast while breadcake is (uk|northern england) a bread roll.

barm

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bearm .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete except in dialects) Bosom, lap.
  • * Late 14th century': And with that word this faucon gan to crie / And swowned eft in Canacees '''barm . — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, ''Canterbury Tales
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) beorma''; related to the dialectal (Low) German ''Bärm'' ("yeast"), from Middle Low German ''barm'', ''berm''. The cake sense is possibly a shortened form of barmcake, which would be made with yeast as described in that sense, or possibly it is from the (etyl) '' , a type of cake.

    Noun

  • Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • * 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 620:
  • In 1577 yeast, called barm , is bought at 9d. the pail.
  • * 1913 , DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers , Penguin 2006, p. 65:
  • And he chaffed the women as he served them their ha'porths of barm .
  • A small, flat, round individual loaf or roll of bread.
  • See also

    * bap * bun * roll * muffin * barmy * barmpot ----

    breadcake

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, Northern England) A bread roll.