Brummagem
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Brummagem is an adjective meaning Cheap and showy; meretricious.
Meaning
Cheap and showy; meretricious.
More Meanings
- Alternative form of Brummagem (“person from Birmingham”).
- Alternative form of Brummagem (“counterfeit coin”).
Example Sentences
The unhappy man (who had cheated the sailors), innocent of danger, is seated on a grating with his combs, spy-glasses, necklaces, ribbons, and all the rest of his "Brummagem" trumpery, spread out before him.
The colloquial form of the city’s name thus entered the language as a contemptuous epithet. In 1861 the word was used to describe “The vulgar dandy, strutting along, with his Brummajem jewellry”; to “Birminhamize” was “to artificialize.”
"My, my, my, my, my," said a voice from behind them, and the Baudelaire orphans turned to find Stephano standing there,...a look of brummagem surprise on his face. "Brummagem" is such a rare word for "fake" that even Klaus didn't know what it meant, but the children did not have to be told that Stephano was pretending to be surprised.
Word Forms
- Brummajem
- brummagems
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tawdry, trinketlike, meretricious, junky, trumpery, flaunty.
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