jannockn.
/ˈdʒanək/ English regional (northern).attributive.1694 R. Thoresby Diary (1830) I. 268 Jannock bread and clap-cakes the best that gold could purchase.
A loaf of leavened oaten bread.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > loaf > [noun] > other types of loaf
white loafeOE
barley loafc950
French loafc1350
pease loafc1390
penny loaf1418
jannock?a1500
household loaf1565
boon-loaf1679
farmhouse loaf1795
cottage loaf1829
potato loaf1831
sod1836
Coburg1843
sweet roll1851
stale1874
Hovis1890
Sally Lunn1901
bloomer loaf1937
wholemeal1957
baguette1958
?a1500 Chester Pl. vii. 120 A Ianock [v.r. jannacke] of Lancashyre.
1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health vii. 28 Of Oates they make bread..Some in broade loaues, which they cal Ianockes.
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xxiv. 233 Had Galen seen the Oaten cakes of the North; the Janocks of Lancashire, and the Grues of Cheshire, he would have confessed that Oates and Oatmeal are not only meat for beasts, but also for tall, fair and strong men and women.
?1746 ‘T. Bobbin’ View Lancs. Dial. 3 'Twur seign Peawn'd t'a tuppunny Jannock, I bin os deod os a Dur Nele.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. i. 8 Mattie [in Northumberland] gae us baith a drap skimmed milk, and ane o' her thick ait jannocks, that was as wat and raw as a divot. O for the bonnie girdle cakes o' the North!
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Jannock, leavened oat bread.
1855 E. Waugh Sketches Lancs. Life (1857) 58 Content with water~pottage, buttermilk, and jannock, till he was between thirteen and fourteen years of age.
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jannockadj.adv.
/ˈdʒanək/ dialect.
a. Fair, straightforward; genuine.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [adjective] > straightforward or frank
right fortha1382
plaina1393
free-hearteda1398
round1487
opena1535
sincere1539
frank1555
pert1567
single-hearted1574
single-minded1577
direct1586
open-hearted1593
open-breasted1594
transparent1600
unclose1606
unminced1648
even down1654
unreserved1654
rugged1678
plain sailing1707
whole-footed1744
sturdy1775
heart-in-mouth1827
jannock1828
straightforward1829
direct-dealing1830
undiplomatic1834
straight-ahead1836
straight-up-and-down1859
man to man1902
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > sincerity, freedom from deceit > [adjective]
aefauldOE
trueOE
true as steela1300
throlya1375
entirec1380
faithfula1382
entirelyc1400
single1519
sincere1533
sincere1539
simple-minded1556
Dunstable?1565
truthful?1567
single-hearted1574
single-minded1577
sound1580
downright1584
unaffected1592
real1597
plain-hearted1601
unartificial1603
free1619
honest1634
fair and square1636
round-dealing1642
wholehearted1657
down flata1663
well-designing1670
heart-whole1684
single-eyed1705
unsanctimoniousa1797
natural1825
bona fide1827
unfallacious1827
jannock1828
forthcoming1835
up and down1836
bonified1840
forthgoing1851
unhypocritical1854
forthright1855
upstanding1863
on the level1872
genuine1890
for real1954
upfront1967
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) ‘That isn't Jannock’, i.e. not fair, a phrase in use..when one of the party is suspected of not drinking fairly.
1863 J. P. Robson Songs Bards of Tyne 80 Frank an' free an' jenick tee, We eat the breed we buy.
1867 Notes & Queries 3rd Ser. 11 146/1 Eh Sam, Bill's a reet un, he's gradely jannock.
1885 H. Caine Shadow of Crime (1899) xxi. 65 You've got a deal too much talk to be jannic.
1897 Manch. Guardian 28 Oct. The people of Lancashire were jannock..and they wanted any Government that they might support to be jannock also.
b. as adv.
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1857 G. Borrow Romany Rye I. xxxi. 369 Unless you choose to behave jonnock.
1894 C. N. Robinson Brit. Fleet 475 Ready to act jonnic all round.
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n.?a1500adj.adv.1828