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Barm
Definitions
- 1 bosom dialectal, obsolete
- 2 Foam rising upon beer or other malt liquors when fermenting, used as leaven in brewing and making bread; yeast. countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
"[A]nd sometimes make the drink to bear no barm."
- 3 a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey wordnet
- 4 lap dialectal, obsolete
- 5 A small, round, flat individual loaf or roll of bread. countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
- 1 To spurge; foam dialectal, obsolete
Etymology
From Middle English barm, barme, berm, bearm, from Old English bearm (“lap; bosom”), from Proto-West Germanic *barm, from Proto-Germanic *barmaz (“lap; bosom”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear”). Cognate with German Barm (“lap; bosom”).
From Middle English berme, berm, from Old English beorma, from Proto-West Germanic *bermō (“yeast; barm”); 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 bairín breac, a type of bread.
From Middle English bermen, from the noun (see above).
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