brummagem \BRUHM-uh-juhm\, adjective:
Cheap and showy, tawdry; also, spurious, counterfeit.
Elderly, life-long word lovers who collect words for fun don't often run across new words. Today I did, and that word is brummagem. Jim used the word in a poem he named Brummagem Smiles (Or the Etiquette of Grins). Is this word new to you, too?
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3 comments:
Sounds more like a Hobbit word than an English one. I hope it doesn't have anything to do with Beau Brummel's suits.
No, it's English, definitely British English. According to Michael Quinion:
"The British Midlands city of Birmingham was at one time also called Brummagem ... its reputation was often for poor-quality goods."
I found that information here (and other places as well):
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-bru2.htm
I wish my vast vocabulary was the culprit; alas, it was wordsmith.org and their "Word of the Day."
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