Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The yeasty foam that rises to the surface of fermenting malt liquors.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The bosom; the lap.
- n. The scum or foam rising upon beer or other malt liquors when fermenting; yeast. It is used as leaven in bread to make it swell, causing it to become softer, lighter, and more delicate. It may be used in liquors to make them ferment or work. It is a fungus, Saccharomyces cerevisiæ. See
yeast and fermentation. - n. Same as berm.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete except in dialects Bosom, lap.
- n. Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast.
- n. A small flat round, individual loaf, or roll of bread.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast.
- n. obsolete The lap or bosom.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
Etymologies
- From Old English 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 Irish báirín breac, a type of cake. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English berme, from Old English beorma, yeast; see bhreu- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A large apron -- which Clarice called a barm-cloth -- protected the dress from stain.”
“AlcoholAfter the liquid cools, yeast is added to form barm, which is put into fermentation tanks to convert the sugars into alcohol.”
“I am assuming the "hops liquid natural starter" is a "barm", either traditional ale beer barm or simply liquid natural starter with hops added in.”
“For those of us too brainy to watch soaps (except for Corrie and Katherine Kelly's wonderful portrayal of barm pot Becky) at new panel game for the recession, QE the Quantitave Easing game with Stephen Fry pilots at Boggart.”
“Do you call a 'bread roll' a cob, batch, bread cake, barm cake or scuffler?”
“Iz okay if hims did, cuz teh fyre laydees wer in teh nawty barm wif him adn Maus furr a LONG tyme yesturdai…”
Cuzn cat visits for wknd - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“The young man has erotic trmptations with all the wives in this small community, including a much older woman who seduces him in the top hallow of a barm, and she says “Touche le” exposing her breasts.”
“After making all the petty stuff and substituting baking in place of frying to save those innumerable calories (posts to come), I finally thought it was time to gather all my courage and muster my confidence and try to work in equanimity with the barm(yeast), which has failed me more than often.”
“April 24, 2008 at 7:03 am oooh leeza-b, ai joining u in nawty barm!”
last picture - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘barm’.
-
phrontistery - b
List of words from phrontistery.info
babeldom, baccate, bacchanal, bacciferous, bacciform, baccivorous, bacillicide, backstay, bactericide, baculiform, baculine, baculum and 582 more...
-
Periodic Table of Cake
I should have known better, but once I got started on this, I realized it’s basically the same thing as Ruzuzu’s list “Let them eat cake”, with less cake.
cheese, ague, almond, alum, pan, ash, beef, tea, Baddeley, daikon, yellow, zebra and 44 more...
-
cotton
Cotton is a blended word with rich flavor. One meaning root is from the semitic root qtn that means to 'become thin or fine'; and the other meaning is from Welsh cytun or cytun that means to ' agr...
cotton, hosanna, Seneca, crab, hock, bow, bark, carousal, limber, rash, beguine, kennel and 26 more...
-
Bread-related Words
Words related to bread and bread-making
barm, ferment, knead, couche, proof, gluten, rustic, brioche, semolina, durum, rye, yeast and 21 more...
-
Words that make me want to drink sing...
You know that feeling when you hear a word that you just want to roll it around in your mouth, experiment with it, find its edges and texture. Words that you want to clink around in a glass with so...
melt, agronomy, cartilage, vexatious, scintillating, carrion, caryopsis, crystallite, haulm, alegar, maltster, carpel and 35 more...
-
A Crumb Of Comfort
Types of bread & breadmaking terms. Mainly I'm looking for plain or savoury breads but I'll accept the sweet-ish ones as long as they are more bread than cake :-)
lagana, khobz, pita, foccaccia, ciabatta, bap, altamura, knead, leaven, crumpet, muffin, bagel and 202 more...
-
Faves
nepenthe, cupidity, anodyne, obdurate, doleful, obsolescent, quale, piquant, velleity, inchoate, disport, facile and 366 more...
-
bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1459 more...
-
Maineisms
Some of these were taken from older literature and have fallen out of use in the past few decades, but many are still used today in the same way they were used a century ago. By no means a compreh...
Yankeedom, wizzled, wing and wing, wickie-up, whiffletree, weewaw, wangan, wainy, upstair, twice-laid, tunket, trig and 136 more...
-
leaven heaven
a haven for lightness
leaven, lever, levity, alleviate, carnival, elevate, legerdemain, mezzo-relievo, relevant, relieve, leprechaun, lung and 36 more...
-
Objects and Things
anteroom, flagon, cocotte, ambry, cloche, pate, vespiary, fricassee, carousal, psoas, tome, aperture and 38 more...
-
Filled bread in North-West England
sandwich, sarnie, butty, batch, nudger, doorstep, barm, cob, roll, bun, bin lid
Tweets
Looking for tweets for barm.
fbharjo bosom or yeast! Feb 8, 2013