bonnag

Etymology

From Manx bonnag. Compare Irish bonnóg (“bannock, scone”), based on Latin pānicum (“millet”). Doublet of bannock.

noun

  1. A flat cake, sometimes made with dried fruit.“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.”