I have lost two words

[MaMight]

This is not actually pendantry, but I thought I would have most luck if I put it to the Pedants' Corner squatters.

Two separate questions:

1. This morning I called my daughter a "daft bessom" and then realised that I have only ever read the word 'bessom' and don't know it's literal meaning. Not wanting to unwittingly use an offensive word, I looked it up... and can't find it anywhere. There is a word bessom isn't there? What does it mean?

1. Years ago I had a 'Word of the Day' calendar. It gave me a word that means a collections of jams, marmalades, honeys etc. It was the breakfast equivalent of 'condiments' I loved this word and used it as often as I could poncily shoe-horn it into conversation. Now I have forgotten it completely. Anyone know?

PS apologies for any spelling or grammar mistakes. I'm not really literate enough to post here, I know .

Trucklements?

Late to the party but I have a suggestion:

Could it be 'jentacular'? Adjective, not noun. Means 'of or pertaining to breakfast'.

I can't believe I read the whole thing and there is no conclusion.

I'm going with opsonomy

Opsony even

Opsony and jentacular! I can't wait to use those.
Truckle Isn't it tracklements? I think it means preserves like chutneys, to accompany cold meets and cheese.

It's like coming home....

Regalements? Doesn't specifically refer to breakfast, but it sounds impressive.

Put your feet up, Hearts, it'll be a long wait for a resolution to this one.

Gah! I was dead excited to see this one come up - I thought we had an answer.

I am a bit perturbed at how often this crops up in my brain as to what this might be....

If jentacular is the adj, can we have jentacles for the jars themselves?

Oh god... What's the answer!

I love jentacles! Can we coin it?

Blimey.

I didn't realise it had been that long since this thread.

How can it have been bugging me for nearly 5 years?

And still no definitive answer.

Gah.

God I can't help with the preserves at all but my mother used to call me a 'bissum' when I was little (we are in New Zealand). I had no idea no one else appeared to use the word till I tried to google it one day and had a lot of trouble tracking it down.

This site -
foottalk.blogspot.co.nz/2008/02/this-valentine-dont-you-be-swept-off.html
gave the meaning that was closest to how I remembered it being used, in that it was used more affectionately than contemptuously.
'Bissum' was also a common Scottish noun used to describe ‘mischieviously playful little girls.’

If you google bissum rather than bessom more comes up. Now I am off to try and drop opsonomy into everyday conversation.

(In full it reads 'By the Middle Ages the beson broom had become a symbol of antiestablishmentarianism and sensuality. This is evidenced by the word 'besom' (bissum) becoming a slang term for an easy woman or hussy. 'Bissum' was also a common Scottish noun used to describe ‘mischieviously playful little girls.’)

This thread is a thing of beauty. So MaMight never came back did she? I have a theory: she must have been thinking of pålegg...not opsony....pålegg the word itself...that's why she remembered it as being poncy, because what is more poncy than using a foreign word for something that does, as we now know, have an English equivalent?

My German mum uses "belag" or plural "belaege". It really just means "toppings", though.

Nice to see this thread still going strong.

Gosh I can't believe that MaMIght left this hanging!
now I'm sucked in too... argh!