barmcake
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[edit]barmcake (plural barmcakes)
- (UK) A barm (bread roll).
- 1975, Joan Markham, The Lamp was Dimmed: The Story of a Nurse's Training:
- Without these deprivations we would have missed the exquisite pleasure of a Spam barmcake, bought at a local cafe on pay day.
- (UK) A foolish person.
- 2003, Stephen Elboz, An Ocean of Magic:
- "More like his coffin if the barmcake tries to take on the river tonight. Och, but it'll serve him right."