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▪ I. jannock, n. north. Eng.|ˈdʒænək|
Forms: ? 5, 6–8 janock(e, 6 jannacke, janok(e, 7 janack, 7– jannock.
[A north. Engl., esp. Lancash., word, of obscure origin. Not Sc.]
A loaf of leavened oaten bread.
a1500Chester Pl. vii. 120 A Ianock [v.r. jannacke] of Lancashyre. 1584Cogan Haven Health vii. (1636) 30 Of Oates they make bread..some in broad Loaves which they cal Ianocks. 1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 331 Had Galen seen the Oaten Cakes of the North, the Janocks of Lancashire, and the Grues of Cheshire, he would have confessed that Oats and Oatmeal are not only Meat for Beasts, but also for tall, fair and strong Men and Women. c1746J. Collier (Tim Bobbin) View Lanc. Dial. Wks. (1862) 40 'Twur Seign Peawnd t'a tuppunny Jannock, I'd bin os deeod os o Dur Nele. 1818Scott Rob Roy xiv, 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! 1825Brockett, Jannock, leavened oat bread. 1855E. Waugh Lancash. Life (1857) 58 Content with water⁓pottage, buttermilk, and jannock, till he was between thirteen and fourteen years of age.
attrib.1694Thoresby Diary (Hunter) I. 268 Jannock bread and clap-cakes the best that gold could purchase.
▪ II. jannock, a. (adv.) dial.|ˈdʒænək|
Also jonnock, jonnik, jonnic(k, jannic, jenick.
[A modern dial. word: thought by some to be connected with prec., but of much more recent history, wider diffusion (Northumberland to Hampshire, Norfolk to Cornwall), and greater phonetic diversity. (Not Sc.)]
Fair, straightforward; genuine.
1828Craven Dial. s.v., ‘That isn't Jannock’, i.e. not fair, a phrase in use..when one of the party is suspected of not drinking fairly. 1863in Robson Bards of Tyne 80 Frank an' free an' jenick tee, We eat the breed we buy. 1867N. & Q. 3rd Ser. XI. 146/1 Eh Sam, Bill's a reet un, he's gradely jannock. 1885Hall Caine Shadow of Crime xxi. (1899) 65 You've got a deal too much talk to be jannic. 1897Manch. 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.
1857Borrow Romany Rye (1872) 111 Unless you choose to behave jannock. 1894C. N. Robinson Brit. Fleet 475 Ready to act jonnic all round. |