barm cake
barm cake — noun
1. a soft, round, flat individual-sized roll, usually sliced open and filled to mak
a soft, round, flat individual-sized roll, usually sliced open and filled to make a sandwich, eaten mainly in the north-west of England.
Tanvi bought a warm barm cake from the bakery near Manchester station.
countable noun: a barm cake
The chip shop in Bolton sells chips inside a soft barm cake.
filled with food to make a sandwich
Theo split the barm cake open and spread butter on both halves.
At the market, Emma counted six barm cakes still left on the tray.
Hamza prefers a bacon barm cake for breakfast on cold mornings.
- bap
another British word for a soft round roll, used more widely across the UK
- bread roll
standard, region-neutral term for the same kind of small loaf
文法句型
a barm cake
barm cakes
用法筆記
Common in north-west England (around Manchester and Lancashire); a southern English speaker is more likely to say 'bread roll' or 'bap' for the same food.