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barm

Pronunciation: /bɑːm/

The English word “barm” has 5 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. bosom
  2. lap
  3. Foam rising upon beer or other malt liquors when fermenting, used as leaven in brewing and making bread; yeast.
  4. A small, round, flat individual loaf or roll of bread.

verb

  1. To spurge; foam

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”).

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