Meaning & use
barm
A soft, round bread roll, especially as used in Northern English cuisine for sandwiches.
See it in a sentence
He ordered a chip barm, filling the soft roll with hot fries and gravy.
The bakery sold fresh barms every morning, still warm from the oven.
A note on using this word
Barm originally referred to the yeasty froth formed during fermentation; the bread-roll sense is a regional British usage, especially in Lancashire.
Words with a similar meaning
bapbread roll
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Another way to use it
2. noun
The froth that forms on the surface of fermenting malt liquor, once used to leaven bread.
Brewers skimmed the barm from the top of the vat to start a new batch of dough.
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