counterfeit coin made in the city of Birmingham; counterfeit coin; cheap jewelry
counterfeit; gaudy but worthless
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Brummagem Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(a.)
Counterfeit; gaudy but worthless; sham.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutCounterfeit; gaudy but worthless; sham.
brummagem
\brum"ma*gem\ (&?;), a. [birmingham (formerly bromwycham), eng., "the great mart and manufactory of gilt toys, cheap jewelry," etc.] counterfeit; gaudy but worthless; sham. [slang] "these brummagem gentry." hardy.
Meaning
A hammer.
Origin
The jibe that people from the English West Midlands city of Birmingham (Brummagem) were unsophisticated and made crude goods, a predudice that persists in the UK today, is the source of this. Other places, notably Liverpool and Ireland, have suffered the same jibe more recently.
Brummagen is a slang version of Birmingham, which is a version of Bromwicham, itself a version of Brimidgeham, the old name for Birmingham. The Bromwicham form persists in the name of the town to the west of Birmingham - West Bromwich.
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Origin
The jibe that people from the English West Midlands city of Birmingham (Brummagem) were unsophisticated and made crude goods, a predudice that persists in the UK today, is the source of this. Other places, notably Liverpool and Ireland, have suffered the same jibe more recently.
Brummagen is a slang version of Birmingham, which is a version of Bromwicham, itself a version of Brimidgeham, the old name for Birmingham. The Bromwicham form persists in the name of the town to the west of Birmingham - West Bromwich.
Noun
1. a city in central England; 2nd largest English city and an important industrial and transportation center
(synonym) Birmingham
(hypernym) city, metropolis, urban center
(part-holonym) England
Adjective
1. cheap and showy; "a cheap Brummagem imitation"
(similar) tasteless, in poor taste(p)
(classification) United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Brummagem Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Brummagem (and historically also Bromichan, Bremicham and many similar variants, all essentially Bromwich·ham) is the local name for the city of Birmingham, England, and the dialect associated with it (see, for example, Carl Chinn and Steve Thorne). It gave rise to the terms Brum (a shortened version or Brummagem) and Brummie (inhabitants of the city, their accent and dialect, and frequently West Midlanders and their accents in general).
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