bammy
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbami/
- Rhymes: -æmi
Etymology 1
Apparently a dialectal form of barmy.
Adjective
bammy (comparative bammier, superlative bammiest)
- (Scotland, slang) Crazy.
- 1992, James Kelman, “Let the Wind Blow High Let the Wind Blow Low”, in Some Recent Attacks, page 86:
- Those who persist are shown up as perverse, slightly bammy, crackpots – or occasionally as unpatriotic.
- 2009, Frankie Boyle, My Shit Life So Far, HarperCollins, published 2010, page 183:
- He was quite a bammy Glasgow guy who had hit on the idea of playing a Tolkienesque character who could turn things to mud with his magical finger.
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Jamaican Creole
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbami/
- Rhymes: -ami
Noun
bammy (plural: bammy dem or bammys dem, quantified: bammy)
- bammy (cassava flatbread)
- 1949, Louise Bennett, Mek Wi Talk: Jamaican Dialect Poems, →ISBN, page 128:
- “Me have coakinat , skellion , toomatis an' Ole Harbour bammy. Wat yuh want mam? Pum'kin? yuh wi haffe buy cho-cho wid i, dem married, same like 'ow cassava Is married to yampi . Is me wan gat bammy dis week [...]”
- I have coconuts, spring onions, tomatoes and bammies from Old Harbour. What would you like, ma'am? Pumpkin? You'll have to take the chayote as well. They're a couple. The same goes for cassava. It's married to the yam. I'm the only one who has bammy this week. [...]
- Bammy!? Everybady else ah eat fry dumplin fi dem brekfas' Sunday mawnin, an' mi have fi a nyam stick root.
- Bammy!? Everybody else got fried dumplings for their Sunday morning breakfast and here I am eating the root of a plant.
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References
- bammy – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary
Scots
Etymology
Scottish form of barmy.
Adjective
bammy (comparative bammier, superlative bammiest)
- crazy, barmy, mental
- 1999, David Armstrong, The First Teenagers, page 22:
- He ran tae the windae, threw it open and clambered oot ontae the sill. Ah thought he'd gone bammy...ye know, right aff his heid!
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- 2018, Chris McQueer, HWFG, 404Ink 2018, p. 10:
- ‘We goat kicked oot ae there,’ another member ae this group, the world's bammiest boayband says, noddin taeward the live lounge.
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