Brummagem

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Cheap and showy; meretricious.

   “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.”

2. isim Alternative form of Brummagem (“person from Birmingham”).
3. isim Alternative form of Brummagem (“counterfeit coin”).
4. özel isim Nickname for Birmingham: a major city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.
5. isim A person from Birmingham.
6. isim A counterfeit coin.
7. sıfat Alternative letter-case form of brummagem (“cheap and showy”).

   “He was “great” (as he expressed it) with the Bloomer who kept the bar where their club was held, and whom he styled “a spiffy girl,” and who had been graciously pleased to accept of a pair of very Brummagem-looking earrings, set with paste diamonds, with which he had presented her.”