Brummagem

See also: brummagem

English

Etymology

A dialectal variant of Birmingham.

Proper noun

Brummagem

  1. (UK, colloquial, dialect) Nickname for Birmingham: a major city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.

Derived terms

Noun

Brummagem (plural Brummagems)

  1. A person from Birmingham.
    Synonym: Brummie
  2. (obsolete, slang) A counterfeit coin.

Adjective

Brummagem (not comparable)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of brummagem (“cheap and showy”).
    • 1852, “How Jeremiah Tubbs became engaged in the Irish elections of 1852”, in New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, page 66:
      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.

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