Showing posts with label brummagem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brummagem. Show all posts

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Brummagem

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?