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 .

Addicted to this thread now, marking my place...

arf Mary

Hahah, me too!

Have we had preserves?

According to the Dictionary of the Scots Tongue, or Dictionar of the Scots Leid, besom (a broom) is derived from Old Scandinavian.
Whereas besom/bisom/bizzim (jocular disparaging term for a girl or woman) may derive from bysen, a now obsolete word from the north of England! Original may be bysyn meaning a monster in Old Scandinavian, or bisen meaning an example from Old Norse..........shall I go on?
But I like bysenfu for disgusting, or indeed bysenless for 'extremely worthless, without shame in wickedness'. It hasn't been used since 1825 so I'll be safe using it.

Quiddany? Skillygalee? Tanchiments? Husband now insisting you're memory is wrong and it's definitely confiture [hmmm]

collocation(s)?

Hahah dh is in on this now!

Tartinerie? Electuaries?

no answer yet then?
you sure it's not nutella?
Also i'm not one to shout troll but op is called MaMight...geddit?

marmite?

Oh God, haven't we got there yet?

SPB

bumps thread again in hope of an answer - MaMight where have you gone?

Oh good lord this is still alive/

Let me read back...

I do feel dreadful that I've not got it yet, but I am afraid I still insist there was definitely a word.

PMSL @ Mr Waitrose getting involved .

Okay, it's not collocations, but that word did give me a flutter.

Have we emailed Stephen Fry yet? Shall we tweet him a link to this thread?

Shall plan B be to make up a word and pretend that it was that all along?

Oh, please do tweet Stephen Fry with a link, that would be wonderful!

I emailed Gyles Brandreth's agent a couple of days ago with a link to this thread and she emailed back and said she had passed the message on. Hopefully he is treating this as a matter of urgency

I went onto Stephen Fry's twitter page and it said something about generating lots of traffic if you put links up to web pages so I left it. Actually I don't understand anything about Twitter so I may have got that wrong!

feeble bump

[pokes MaMight]

did you ever get an answer?

getting back on my threads

have just read through ALL 7 PAGES to find that there's still no answer! (and why can't I get a Jimmy hat smiley?)

it's traumatic, isn't it the ladylovescupcakes!

I don't think MaMight can even see this thread anymore - she's not commented for ages!

STILL no answer? Bloody Hell.

I don't think traumatic is the right collective noun for breakfast bits. Really I don't.

Provender?