"bammy" meaning in Jamaican Creole

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Noun

IPA: /ˈbami/ Forms: bammy dem [plural], bammy [quantified]
Rhymes: -ami Head templates: {{head|jam|nouns|10=|head=bammy}} bammy, {{jam-noun}} bammy (plural bammy dem, quantified bammy)
  1. bammy (cassava flatbread) Categories (topical): Breads Synonyms: bammie

Alternative forms

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bammy dem",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bammy",
      "tags": [
        "quantified"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "jam",
        "10": "",
        "2": "nouns",
        "head": "bammy"
      },
      "expansion": "bammy",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bammy (plural bammy dem, quantified bammy)",
      "name": "jam-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Jamaican Creole",
  "lang_code": "jam",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Jamaican Creole entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Jamaican Creole entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
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          ],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "jam",
          "name": "Breads",
          "orig": "jam:Breads",
          "parents": [
            "Foods",
            "Eating",
            "Food and drink",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Bammy!? Everybody else got fried dumplings for their Sunday morning breakfast and here I am eating the root of a plant.",
          "text": "Bammy!? Everybady else ah eat fry dumplin fi dem brekfas' Sunday mawnin, an' mi have fi a nyam stick root.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "I have coconuts, spring onions, tomatoes and bammies from Old Harbour. What would you like, ma'am? Pumpkin? You'll have to take the chayote as well. They're a couple. The same goes for cassava. It's married to the yam. I'm the only one who has bammy this week. …",
          "ref": "1949, Louise Bennett, Mek Wi Talk: Jamaican Dialect Poems, page 128",
          "text": "“Me have coakinat , skellion , toomatis an' Ole Harbour bammy. Wat yuh want mam? Pum'kin? yuh wi haffe buy cho-cho wid i, dem married, same like 'ow cassava Is married to yampi . Is me wan gat bammy dis week [...]”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "bammy (cassava flatbread)"
      ],
      "id": "en-bammy-jam-noun-nx7ClLDD",
      "links": [
        [
          "bammy",
          "bammy"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bammie"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbami/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ami"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bammy"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bammy dem",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bammy",
      "tags": [
        "quantified"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "jam",
        "10": "",
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      },
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    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bammy (plural bammy dem, quantified bammy)",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "Jamaican Creole",
  "lang_code": "jam",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        "Jamaican Creole entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "Jamaican Creole lemmas",
        "Jamaican Creole nouns",
        "Jamaican Creole terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Jamaican Creole terms with quotations",
        "Jamaican Creole terms with redundant head parameter",
        "Jamaican Creole terms with usage examples",
        "Rhymes:Jamaican Creole/ami",
        "jam:Breads"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Bammy!? Everybody else got fried dumplings for their Sunday morning breakfast and here I am eating the root of a plant.",
          "text": "Bammy!? Everybady else ah eat fry dumplin fi dem brekfas' Sunday mawnin, an' mi have fi a nyam stick root.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "I have coconuts, spring onions, tomatoes and bammies from Old Harbour. What would you like, ma'am? Pumpkin? You'll have to take the chayote as well. They're a couple. The same goes for cassava. It's married to the yam. I'm the only one who has bammy this week. …",
          "ref": "1949, Louise Bennett, Mek Wi Talk: Jamaican Dialect Poems, page 128",
          "text": "“Me have coakinat , skellion , toomatis an' Ole Harbour bammy. Wat yuh want mam? Pum'kin? yuh wi haffe buy cho-cho wid i, dem married, same like 'ow cassava Is married to yampi . Is me wan gat bammy dis week [...]”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "bammy (cassava flatbread)"
      ],
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          "bammy"
        ]
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbami/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ami"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "bammie"
    }
  ],
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}

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