Barm vs Butty - What's the difference?
barm | butty |
(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
Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast.
* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 620:
* 1913 , DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers , Penguin 2006, p. 65:
A small, flat, round individual loaf or roll of bread.
(UK, chiefly, Northern England, NZ) A sandwich, usually with a hot savoury filling in a breadcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.
(mining) A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore.
*1913 , DH Lawrence,
*:But Alfred Charlesworth did not forgive the butty these public-house sayings. Consequently, although Morel was a good miner, sometimes earning as much as five pounds a week when he married, [...]
A workmate.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between barm and butty
is that barm is obsolete except in dialects Bosom, lap while butty is a sandwich, usually with a hot savoury filling in a breadcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.barm
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bearm .Noun
(en noun)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
- (Shakespeare)
- In 1577 yeast, called barm , is bought at 9d. the pail.
- And he chaffed the women as he served them their ha'porths of barm .
See also
* bap * bun * roll * muffin * barmy * barmpot ----butty
English
Etymology 1
Shortened from (buttered) (sandwich) or (bun) etc. See (-y).Noun
(butties)- Let's have a bacon butty !