Bonnag

Quick meaning: Bonnag is a noun meaning (chiefly Isle of Man) A flat cake, sometimes made with dried fruit.

Meaning

(chiefly Isle of Man) A flat cake, sometimes made with dried fruit.

Example Sentences

These delicacies are widely exported and are also part of the Island's cuisine along with fresh fish, lobsters, Manx lamb, kippers and bonnag.

[…] being assigned to my Aunt Bridget, provided that I should henceforward live on the ground floor and eat oaten cake and barley bonnag and sleep alone in the cold room over the hall […]

Such were the doings in the big house down in the valley, while up in the thatched cottage behind the water-trough, on potatoes and herrings and barley bonnag, lived Bridget and her little Pete.

Traditionally, the boys of the Isle of Man would go from house to house carrying turnips or cabbages on sticks and hope to be rewarded with apples, bonnag (a tea plate-sized fruit cake), herring and possibly some sweets […]

Word Forms

• bonnags

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cake-bread, bake, battercake, gateau, breadcake, bon-bon.

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