different between bamma vs bammy

English

Etymology

Perhaps from Alabama (which is sometimes informally shortened to Bama).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bæm?/

Noun

bamma (plural bammas)

1. (African-American Vernacular, slang, derogatory) An unstylish rural person; a hick.

Alternative forms

• bama

Anagrams

• Mamba, mamba

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?bami/
• Rhymes: -æmi

Etymology 1

Apparently a dialectal form of barmy.

Adjective

bammy (comparative bammier, superlative bammiest)

1. (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.

Etymology 2

Noun

bammy (countable and uncountable, plural bammies)

1. (Jamaican) Jamaican cassava flatbread.

Jamaican Creole

Alternative forms

• bammie

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bami/
• Rhymes: -ami

Noun

bammy (plural: bammy dem, quantified: bammy)

1. bammy (cassava flatbread)

References

• bammy – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary

Scots

Etymology

Scottish form of barmy.

Adjective

bammy (comparative bammier, superlative bammiest)

1. 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.