a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
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barm
How to use barm in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for barm.
Editorial note
Without the fruit it's what I call a bap or a barm.
Examples8
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Quick take
a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
Meaning at a glance
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Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for barm.
noun
a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
See also: yeast
Example sentences
Without the fruit it's what I call a bap or a barm.
Always wondered if they called a barm, well, a barm.
In Manchester, my area at least, it's a barm and that's that.
So in Manchester it would have been a bacon barmcake.
I'm all about gravy but wrapping a pie in a cob/barm/buttie/etc does seem a bit odd.
I have regular arguments with my SO over the technical differences between barmcakes and, what I call all small round bread, bread rolls.
Never heard barm until I came to Lancastershire but it’s probably my favourite synonym for it. Get funny looks when ordering a bacon barm in London, however.
Proper noun examples
Barm was always barmcake when I were a lad.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use barm in a sentence?
Without the fruit it's what I call a bap or a barm.
What does barm mean?
a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
What part of speech is barm?
barm is commonly used as noun.