"brummagem" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "From Birmingham, England where cheap manufactured goods used to be produced.",
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      },
      "expansion": "brummagem (not comparable)",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1893, Graham Everitt, English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century, page 175:",
          "text": "The unhappy man (who had cheated the sailors), innocent of danger, is seated on a grating with his combs, spy-glasses, necklaces, ribbons, and all the rest of his \"Brummagem\" trumpery, spread out before him.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Lemony Snicket, The Reptile Room:",
          "text": "\"My, my, my, my, my,\" said a voice from behind them, and the Baudelaire orphans turned to find Stephano standing there,...a look of brummagem surprise on his face. \"Brummagem\" is such a rare word for \"fake\" that even Klaus didn't know what it meant, but the children did not have to be told that Stephano was pretending to be surprised.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Rachel Crawford, Poetry, enclosure, and the vernacular landscape, 1700–1830, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 160:",
          "text": "The colloquial form of the city’s name thus entered the language as a contemptuous epithet. In 1861 the word was used to describe “The vulgar dandy, strutting along, with his Brummajem jewellry”; to “Birminhamize” was “to artificialize.”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Cheap and showy; meretricious."
      ],
      "id": "en-brummagem-en-adj-ghocek4B",
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        [
          "Cheap",
          "cheap"
        ],
        [
          "showy",
          "showy"
        ],
        [
          "meretricious",
          "meretricious"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "Brummajem"
    }
  ],
  "word": "brummagem"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From Birmingham, England where cheap manufactured goods used to be produced.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brummagems",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "extra": "person from Birmingham",
          "word": "Brummagem"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "_dis": "6 94",
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          "name": "West Midlands English",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of Brummagem (“person from Birmingham”)"
      ],
      "id": "en-brummagem-en-noun-3RvMfmJF",
      "links": [
        [
          "Brummagem",
          "Brummagem#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "Birminghamize"
        }
      ],
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        "alt-of",
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    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "Brummajem"
    }
  ],
  "word": "brummagem"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from toponyms",
    "English uncomparable adjectives",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "West Midlands English"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Birmingham, England where cheap manufactured goods used to be produced.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
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      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1893, Graham Everitt, English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century, page 175:",
          "text": "The unhappy man (who had cheated the sailors), innocent of danger, is seated on a grating with his combs, spy-glasses, necklaces, ribbons, and all the rest of his \"Brummagem\" trumpery, spread out before him.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Lemony Snicket, The Reptile Room:",
          "text": "\"My, my, my, my, my,\" said a voice from behind them, and the Baudelaire orphans turned to find Stephano standing there,...a look of brummagem surprise on his face. \"Brummagem\" is such a rare word for \"fake\" that even Klaus didn't know what it meant, but the children did not have to be told that Stephano was pretending to be surprised.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Rachel Crawford, Poetry, enclosure, and the vernacular landscape, 1700–1830, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 160:",
          "text": "The colloquial form of the city’s name thus entered the language as a contemptuous epithet. In 1861 the word was used to describe “The vulgar dandy, strutting along, with his Brummajem jewellry”; to “Birminhamize” was “to artificialize.”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Cheap and showy; meretricious."
      ],
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        [
          "Cheap",
          "cheap"
        ],
        [
          "showy",
          "showy"
        ],
        [
          "meretricious",
          "meretricious"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Brummajem"
    }
  ],
  "word": "brummagem"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from toponyms",
    "English uncomparable adjectives",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "West Midlands English"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Birmingham, England where cheap manufactured goods used to be produced.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brummagems",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Birminghamize"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "extra": "person from Birmingham",
          "word": "Brummagem"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of Brummagem (“person from Birmingham”)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Brummagem",
          "Brummagem#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Brummajem"
    }
  ],
  "word": "brummagem"
}