jannock

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   honest, fair, and straightforward (dialectal); also a loaf of oaten bread

   He was a jannock fellow who always paid his debts on the dot.

A dialectal word of northern England, of uncertain origin; the bread sense (a loaf of oaten bread) is recorded earlier, and the adjectival 'honest, fair' sense is of obscure connection.

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