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Meanings of Brummagem in English

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birmingham

A city in central England; 2nd largest English city and an important industrial and transportation center.

        birmingham

        Brummagem (and historically also Bromichan, Bremicham and many similar variants, all essentially "Bromwich-ham") is the local name for the city of Birmingham, England, and the dialect associated with it.

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                      Usage of Brummagem in English
                      1
                      I am as great a one, as any man in Brummagem, Sir!
                      Biographia Literaria
                      2
                      He feels the summer in the air, and all Brummagem rises upon his horizon.
                      Lewis Rand
                      3
                      I am next heir to a bran-new Brummagem peerage.
                      Ernest Maltravers — Volume 08
                      4
                      But a mere Brummagem article that won't stand wear is quite valueless in their eyes.
                      Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melan...
                      5
                      A Kru boy welcomed them with beaming face and fetched them drinks upon a Brummagem tray.
                      A Millionaire of Yesterday
                      6
                      I thought you were in Brummagem.
                      Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 18...
                      7
                      It is faintly unnerving to discover that, even as a Brummagem schoolboy, he combined firm opinions with assured prose.
                      The Guardian
                      8
                      No "Brummagem" patterns will you find here.
                      Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
                      9
                      Now if you want to please me run away and clean yourself and take off those barbaric and Brummagem earrings.
                      The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel
                      10
                      We'd not overmuch money left; but it were fine weather, and we thought we'd take th' coach to Brummagem, and walk on.
                      Mary Barton
                      11
                      It is the Brummagem of the land, and has not only rich but very extensive ironfields stretching many miles north, east, and west.
                      What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
                      12
                      Pity it is that none of the well-applauded Brummagem patriots have pluck enough to battle a little unpopularity in so honest a cause.
                      Rides on Railways
                      13
                      The most of the middle class are as ignorant as the working people about everything that doesn't belong to their own Brummagem life.
                      The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction
                      14
                      Yet this pearl of great price, how often is it treated as lightly and carelessly as if it was any bauble of Brummagem!
                      The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mothe...
                      15
                      Have you got that seal stamped upon your lives, like the hall-mark that says, 'This is genuine silver, and no plated Brummagem stuff'?
                      Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinth...
                      16
                      What I object to in this is that it is talking Brummagem-itis not "devising liberal things" but spiteful, superficial, illiberal things.
                      Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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                      Translations for Brummagem
                      Portuguese
                      birmingham
                      Brummagem through the time