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Bammy vs Mammy - What's the difference?

bammy | mammy |

As nouns the difference between bammy and mammy

is that bammy is jamaican cassava flatbread while mammy is (childish) mamma; mother.

As an adjective bammy

is (scotland|slang) crazy.

bammy

English

Etymology 1

Apparently a dialectal form of barmy.

Adjective

(er)
  • (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

    (bammies)
  • Jamaican cassava flatbread.
    • ----

    mammy

    English

    Noun

    (mammies)
  • (childish) mamma; mother
  • (US, historical) In the southern United States, a black nanny employed to look after white children.