Wt/sco/bammy

English Edit

Etymology Edit

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Pronunciation Edit

Template:Wt/sco/A IPA^{(No language code specified.)}: /ˈbami/

Adjective Edit

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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.

Scots Edit

Etymology Edit

Scottish form of Script error: The function "template_l_term" does not exist..

Adjective Edit

Wt/sco/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!