Brummagem
adj, name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Alternative form of Brummagem (“person from Birmingham”). alt-of, alternative
- 2 A person from Birmingham.
- 3 Alternative form of Brummagem (“counterfeit coin”). alt-of, alternative
- 4 A counterfeit coin. obsolete, slang
- 1 Cheap and showy; meretricious. not-comparable
"The unhappy man (who had cheated the sailors), innocent of danger, is seated on a grating with his combs, spy-glasses, necklaces, ribbons, and all the rest of his "Brummagem" trumpery, spread out before him."
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of brummagem (“cheap and showy”). alt-of, not-comparable
"He was “great” (as he expressed it) with the Bloomer who kept the bar where their club was held, and whom he styled “a spiffy girl,” and who had been graciously pleased to accept of a pair of very Brummagem-looking earrings, set with paste diamonds, with which he had presented her."
- 1 cheap and showy wordnet
- 1 Nickname for Birmingham: a major city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. UK, colloquial, dialectal
Example
More examples"The unhappy man (who had cheated the sailors), innocent of danger, is seated on a grating with his combs, spy-glasses, necklaces, ribbons, and all the rest of his "Brummagem" trumpery, spread out before him."
Etymology
From Birmingham, England where cheap manufactured goods used to be produced.
A dialectal variant of Birmingham.
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