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Jamaican vs Bammy - What's the difference?

jamaican | bammy |

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)
  • A person from Jamaica or of Jamaican descent.
  • The Jamaican creole language.
  • Jamaican English.
  • Derived terms

    * (l)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language.
  • 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.
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