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barmcake
n. 1 A barm (bread roll). 2 A foolish person.
Usage examples of "barmcake".
They were now honking among fruit-barrows, donkey-whippers, brown and black vociferators in pointed hoods and barmcake turbans and even little woolly caps like Mr Mercer's.
Everywhere there was bread: barmcakes, soda rolls, sweet breads, bloomers, griddlecakes, and loaves.