bam
English
Pronunciation
Interjection
bam
- Representing a loud noise or heavy impact.
- The wind knocked the tree over last night. Bam! It nearly scared me to death.
- Representing a sudden or abrupt occurrence.
- She said she dumped him. Now — bam! — they're back together.
Synonyms
Noun
bam (plural bams)
- (Scotland, slang) ned, bampot.
- (slang, archaic) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Garrick to this entry?)
- Prof. Wilson
- To relieve the tedium he kept plying them with all manner of bams.
Verb
bam (third-person singular simple present bams, present participle bamming, simple past and past participle bammed)
- (slang, archaic) To impose on (someone) by a falsehood; to cheat.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Foote to this entry?)
- David Garrick, The Plays of David Garrick: A Complete Collection of the Social Satires, French Adaptations, Pantomimes, Christmas and Musical Plays, Preludes, Interludes, and Burlesques, ed. Harry William Pedicord and Fredrick Louis Bergmann, vol. 1 (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1980), 93, http://www.questia.com/read/59320440.
- I’ll break a lamp, bully a con stable, bam a justice, or bilk a boxkeeper with any man in the liberties of Westminster.
- (slang, archaic) To jeer or make fun of.
Noun
bam (plural bams)
- Abbreviation of bare-arse minimum.
Anagrams
Old Frisian
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *baumaz.
Noun
bām m
Inflection
Declension of bām (masculine a-stem) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | bām | bāmar, bāma |
genitive | bāmes | bāma |
dative | bāme | bāmum, bāmem |
accusative | bām | bāmar, bāma |
Descendants
Old Saxon
Noun
bām m
- Alternative form of bom
Volapük
Noun
bam (nominative plural bams)
Declension
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