Brummagem

See also: brummagem

English

Proper noun

Brummagem

  1. (UK, colloquial, dialect) The city of Birmingham, England.

Noun

Brummagem (plural Brummagems)

  1. A person from Birmingham.

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 please to accept of a pair of very Brummagem-looking earings, set with paste diamonds, with which he presented her.
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