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Jammy vs Bammy - What's the difference?

jammy | bammy |

As adjectives the difference between jammy and bammy

is that jammy is resembling jam in taste, texture, etc while bammy is (scotland|slang) crazy.

As nouns the difference between jammy and bammy

is that jammy is (slang) a gun while bammy is jamaican cassava flatbread.

jammy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Resembling jam in taste, texture, etc.
  • Covered in jam.
    • a child's jammy fingers
  • (colloquial) Of a person, lucky.

    • Derived terms

    * jamminess

    Noun

    (jammies)
  • (slang) A gun.

    • 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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