Barley
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A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum, usedfor food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, andwhisky. Barley bird (Zoöl.), the siskin.-- Barley sugar, sugar boiled till it is brittle (formerly with adecoction of barley) and candied.-- Barley water, a decoction of barley, used in medicine, as anutritive and demulcent.
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A cereal grain that generally comes in 2-row and 6-row varieties. Malted and used to produce sweet, sweet beer.
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n. cocaine
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a/n. A description for a person who is off
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barley means wicked.
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What you end up saying when you mean barely.
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A word used to annoy people, who must have everything grammatically correct. It may also be used to define a person who speaks grammatically correct. Adjective and Noun.
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Term used to describe unjustly confident or successful youths, often concerned with image and persuing career's in the media. Originating from the character invented by Charlie Brooker's TVGoHome website, it was later the inspiration for the Channel Four Sitcom Nathan Barley, written by Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker. There are two predominant types of Barley. The first type are generally loud and self-important, with an overconfident opinion of themselves. They feel that their lives are more important than those of others around them, hence the loudness. They have designer-scruffy hair, wear tight jeans, tight t-shirts, zip-up jackets and Von Dutch caps. They wear whatever is put in the front window of Topshop, study in-vogue subjects such as psychology and human biology, despite having no real career aspirations, and are easily entertained by idiotic teen-prank humour. They will also mindlessly buy mobile phones, mp3 players etc. regardless of whether they are neccessary. Though they binge drink, drive Euro-box cars and speak with a pseudo-Essex estuary accent tinged with their local dialect, they lack the nerve of chavs. They can be very aggressive in their appearance and behaviour, but lack the courage, individuality or drive to live up to the aggressively confident image they put up.
The second group derive from the alternative music scene. they too study in-vogue subjects, though this is often coupled with the arts. Again, while they profess a love for arthouse films, unsigned experimental bands and radical socialist politics, this is often not true and founded on a desire to be an -
A vagina. As in, to make barley; wheat; or other similar grain products.
Natively, barley is a [cereal] grain derived from the annual grass Hordeum Vulgare. Vulgare sounds like [vulgar], and has a similar construction to vagina; vaginas are in the commonplace vernacular as being vulgar. Also, Horedeum sounds a bit like [Whore], who often have vaginas.
Barley is used for malting, which is akin to something like a [yeast infection], probably.
Barley is used to make alcoholic beverages such as [beer] and [whiskey], which often lead to vagina. -
Used as a truce term, chiefly by children, but also adults, often accompanied by putting one or both thumbs up. South Scotland, Northwest England, English Midlands, North
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