bammy

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbami/
• 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”, in Some Recent Attacks, page 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, published 2010, page 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.

Noun

bammy (plural bammies)

1. (Scotland, slang) A crazy person; wacko.

Etymology 2

Noun

bammy (countable and uncountable, plural bammies)

1. (Jamaica) Jamaican cassava flatbread.

Jamaican Creole

Alternative forms

• bammie

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbami/
• Rhymes: -ami

Noun

bammy (plural bammy dem, quantified bammy)

1. bammy (cassava flatbread)

   Bammy!? Everybady else ah eat fry dumplin fi dem brekfas' Sunday mawnin, an' mi have fi a nyam stick root.

   Bammy!? Everybody else got fried dumplings for their Sunday morning breakfast and here I am eating the root of a plant.

   • 1949, Louise Bennett, Mek Wi Talk: Jamaican Dialect Poems, →ISBN, page 128:

     “Me have coakinat , skellion , toomatis an' Ole Harbour bammy. Wat yuh want mam? Pum'kin? yuh wi haffe buy cho-cho wid i, dem married, same like 'ow cassava Is married to yampi . Is me wan gat bammy dis week [...]”

     I have coconuts, spring onions, tomatoes and bammies from Old Harbour. What would you like, ma'am? Pumpkin? You'll have to take the chayote as well. They're a couple. The same goes for cassava. It's married to the yam. I'm the only one who has bammy this week. [...]

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, page 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!

     He ran to the window, threw it open and clambered out onto the sill. I thought he'd gone barmy...you know, right off his head!

   • 2018, Chris McQueer, HWFG, 404Ink, published 2018, page 10:

     ‘We goat kicked oot ae there,’ another member ae this group, the world's bammiest boayband says, noddin taeward the live lounge.

     ‘We got kicked out of there,’ another member of this group, the world's craziest boy band says, nodding toward the live lounge.