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Brummagem

adjective
1.
Cheap and showy.





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"Brummagem" Quotes from Famous Books



... Copper), a poor captain, whose swans are all geese, his jewellry paste, his guineas counters, his achievements tongue-doughtiness, and his whole man Brummagem. ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook • The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.
... attempting to create a mushroom, a Brummagem, a bunyip aristocracy; but I need scarcely observe that where argument fails ridicule is generally resorted to ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris


Words linked to "Brummagem" :   Birmingham, city, tasteless, U.K., Britain, Great Britain, metropolis, United Kingdom, UK, urban center, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland


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