Rammy vs Bammy - What's the difference?
rammy | bammy |
Of a food, taste, odour etc.: like a ram; pungent, rank.
*, II.ii.1.1:
*:Galen takes exception at mutton, but without question he means that rammy mutton which is in Turkey and Asia Minor […].
(US, colloquial) Frisky, lecherous.
(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 adjectives the difference between rammy and bammy
is that rammy is of a food, taste, odour etc.: like a ram; pungent, rank while bammy is crazy.As a noun bammy is
jamaican cassava flatbread.rammy
English
Adjective
(en adjective)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.