different between bammy vs gammy

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.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æmi/
• Rhymes: -æmi

Etymology 1

Origin obscure and uncertain. Possibly from the English dialectal (North Midlands) adjective game (“lame”), Welsh "gam" (Crooked), or from the Irish cam (“bent”), by way of Shelta. Compare also Old Occitan gambi (“lame, limping”), related to Old Occitan gamba (“leg”) (see also French jambe (“leg”)).

Adjective

gammy (comparative gammier, superlative gammiest)

1. Injured, or not functioning properly (with respect to legs).
   • 2005, Siobhan Roberts, John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic mathematician, in: The Guardian, July 23rd 2015

     In spring 2009, three years after he suffered a stroke that spared him intellectually but left him with a cane and a gammy right side, Conway delivered a six-part lecture series on his latest brainchild: The Free Will Theorem, devised with his Princeton colleague Simon Kochen.

Etymology 2

Abbreviation.

Noun

gammy (plural gammies)

1. (colloquial) Grandmother.

Etymology 3

Unclear.

Noun

gammy (plural gammies)

1. (Scotland, slang, vulgar) A blowjob; fellatio.