Jamaican vs Bammy - What's the difference?
jamaican | bammy |
A person from Jamaica or of Jamaican descent.
The Jamaican creole language.
Jamaican English.
Of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language.
(Scotland, slang) Crazy.
* 1992 , James Kelman, "Let the Wind Blow High Let the Wind Blow Low", Some Recent Attacks , p. 86:
* 2009 , Frankie Boyle, My Shit Life So Far , HarperCollins 2010, p. 183:
Jamaican cassava flatbread.
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As nouns the difference between jamaican and bammy
is that jamaican is jamaican (person) while bammy is jamaican cassava flatbread.As an adjective bammy is
(scotland|slang) crazy.jamaican
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (l)Adjective
(-)External links
* *Langwij JumiekaBilingual Jamaican/English website utilizing phonetic Cassidy-LePage orthography with history, grammar, idioms, dictionary, translations
bammy
English
Etymology 1
Apparently a dialectal form of barmy.Adjective
(er)- Those who persist are shown up as perverse, slightly bammy , crackpots – or occasionally as unpatriotic.
- 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.