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bammy

/ˈbami/

bammy adjective: crazy.

Adjective

bammy (comparative bammier, superlative bammiest)

  1. (Scotland, slang) Crazy.
    • Those who persist are shown up as perverse, slightly bammy, crackpots – or occasionally as unpatriotic.1992, James Kelman, “Let the Wind Blow High Let the Wind Blow Low”, in Some Recent Attacks, page 86
    • 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.2009, Frankie Boyle, My Shit Life So Far, HarperCollins, published 2010, page 183

Noun (1)

bammy (plural bammies)

  1. (Scotland, slang) A crazy person; wacko.

Noun (2)

bammy (countable and uncountable, plural bammies)

  1. (Jamaica) Jamaican cassava flatbread.

Forms of bammy

Adjective
comparativebammier
superlativebammiest
Noun
pluralbammies

Origin of bammy

Apparently a dialectal form of barmy.

Words that rhyme with bammy

17 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about bammy

What does bammy mean?
Bammy means crazy.
What part of speech is bammy?
Bammy can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce bammy?
Bammy is pronounced /ˈbami/ (UK).

Words near bammy in the dictionary

  1. bammies
  2. bammiest
  3. bamming
  4. bammo
  5. Bammoo
  6. bammy
  7. BAMN
  8. bamnidazole
  9. Bamo
  10. Bamonti
  11. bamp

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