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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Thursday, June 26, 2008
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