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 .

Junketries? (old word for sweetmeats but that includes jams at least)

We had confitures didn't we?

Are we nearly there yet?

Is it tracklements?

just wondering.

Haven't read 7 pages.

no chaos, it's not

[tears hair out]

Oh god.

This thread just won't go away!

I am mortified to say that I still haven't thought of the word.

Oh bugger.

Junktries is a good word.

i have NO idea at all, but i'm dying to find out!!!

did you try the fantastic mr fry??!

Hello MM - I have been lurking on this thread for FOUR MONTHS.

My sleep is disturbed - I lie awake thinking about jams and marmalades.

These wordsters you have tried - did anyone try dictionary corner of countdown?

Still no answer? Crikey, I stuck this on watch months ago too!

The saga continues
MaMight, go and sit in the corner and really think!

Goggles?

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrghhhh

please find out.

I am sure it is confitures

grrr

Lordy...

Gubbins?

Oh FFS

I remember seeing this thread LAST YEAR, noticed it in active convos and thought oooh yes what was that word.

Are you sure it isn't "Jams"?

I know that this has not found acceptance earlier in the thread but I remain convinced that the proper collective noun is "preserves". Even though some manufacturers appear to use that term to describe or distinguish between different sorts of jam, I have always thought it had a more general use for all sorts of sweet spreadable comestibles including honey and maramalade.

Aaaggghh! This thread bugged me when I read it months ago and there was no solution. I'd managed to forget all about it and now it's back again. Please, somebody, find the wretched word!!!

Oh bugger it.

Why did I click?

I knew it would be This Thread, but I still clicked.

Now beginneth yet another fruitless search of old dictionaries/cookbooks/random pages on t'interweb. And random questioning of friends/family/strangers on the street.....

We need a list, you know, of all the discarded words.

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is the OP even still around?

Lost, I suspect, in a jam of confitures and conserves!!

Was www.forgottenenglish.com/Calendar.htmthis the calendar in question? Maybe we can email the author?