bammy
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -æmi
Etymology 1
Apparently a dialectal form of barmy.
Adjective
bammy (comparative bammier, superlative bammiest)
- (Scotland, slang) Crazy.
- 1992, James Kelman, "Let the Wind Blow High Let the Wind Blow Low", Some Recent Attacks, p. 86:
- Those who persist are shown up as perverse, slightly bammy, crackpots – or occasionally as unpatriotic.
- 2009, Frankie Boyle, My Shit Life So Far, HarperCollins 2010, p. 183:
- He was quite a bammy Glasgow guy who had hit on the idea of playing a Tolkienesque character who could turn things to mud with his magical finger.
- 1992, James Kelman, "Let the Wind Blow High Let the Wind Blow Low", Some Recent Attacks, p. 86:
Etymology 2
Noun
bammy (countable and uncountable, plural bammies)
Scots
Etymology
Scottish form of barmy.
Adjective
bammy (comparative bammier, superlative bammiest)
- crazy, barmy, mental
- 1999, David Armstrong, The First Teenagers, p. 22:
- He ran tae the windae, threw it open and clambered oot ontae the sill. Ah thought he'd gone bammy...ye know, right aff his heid!
- 2018, Chris McQueer, HWFG, 404Ink 2018, p. 10:
- ‘We goat kicked oot ae there,’ another member ae this group, the world's bammiest boayband says, noddin taeward the live lounge.
- 1999, David Armstrong, The First Teenagers, p. 22: