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Meanings of brummagem in English

Portuguese
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
They name these brummagem cabarets after Pullman cars.
The Beautiful and Damned
2
That conscience may be imperfect, inept, unintelligent, brummagem.
In Defense of Women
3
The girl would accept a little thing like a genuine earldom, she was merely prejudiced against the brummagem article.
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4
It was the signal for the concessionaires to stop their irreverent bawling of brummagem wares, to close their shutters.
The Sirens of Titan
5
It was one of the type known as "tourist" cars, a sort of brummagem Pullman, with a bare floor, and straw seats that needed cleaning.
The Beautiful and Damned
6
I am as great a one, as any man in Brummagem, Sir!
Biographia Literaria
7
He feels the summer in the air, and all Brummagem rises upon his horizon.
Lewis Rand
8
I am next heir to a bran-new Brummagem peerage.
Ernest Maltravers — Volume 08
9
But a mere Brummagem article that won't stand wear is quite valueless in their eyes.
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10
A Kru boy welcomed them with beaming face and fetched them drinks upon a Brummagem tray.
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11
I thought you were in Brummagem.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 18...
12
It is faintly unnerving to discover that, even as a Brummagem schoolboy, he combined firm opinions with assured prose.
The Guardian
13
No "Brummagem" patterns will you find here.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
14
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
15
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
16
It is the Brummagem of the land, and has not only rich but very extensive ironfields stretching many miles north, east, and west.
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Frequent collocations
Translations for brummagem
Portuguese
birmingham
Brummagem through the time