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brummy; brummie
adjective
from Birmingham, England UK, 1941
Both the city of Birmingham and its inhabitants can be called “Brum”. From Brummagem; the local spelling was a phonetic reflection of the local pronunciation: “Brummagem” = Bromwichham (after Bromwich), in turn a corruption of Brimidgeham, the old form of Birmingham. Brummagem has an obsolete sense as “counterfeit, inferior or fake” (of coins, antiques, etc.) as Birmingham was a centre of manufacture for such articles in the C17 and C18.- One has to concede, however, that he had something of a problem when initial research for the promotion threw up only two names that the target market -- “well-informed businessmen” -- associated with the city: Janice (“Oi’l give it fove” of pop jury fame and Marlene (the lady with the big earings and thick Brummy accent played by actress Beryl Reid) — Financial Times, p. 31, 21 October 1983
- I remember a fellow recruit, a man from Birmingham, exclaiming, in a very Brummy accent, 1952, “Ooh! A letter from tart! I’m off to the lats for a wank!”’ — Beale, 1984
- [We] were sent to this car show at the NEC, up in Brum, for the weekend. — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 107, 2001
- Now Julie Walters wants to follow in their footsteps by playing Lady Macbeth with her native Birmingham accent. “I did it first about 17 years ago, with Bernard Hill as the King,” she says. “This time, however, I want to do it with a Brummy accent. Shakespeare makes a lot more sense when you do him in Brummy. — The Express, p. 39, 23 October 2003
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