adjective:
Cheap and showy, tawdry; also, spurious, counterfeit.The distortions they bring on damage society and fuel defiant behavior, encouraging everything from immigrations to the Cayman Islands, to active distortions of reality through brummagem corporate filings.
– William F. Buckley, Jr., “Reforming the Rich”, National Review, January 20, 2006Brummagem is an alteration of Birmingham, England, from the counterfeit groats produced there in the 17th century.
I mostly liked this word for the example sentence about the dubious corporate filings. Seems like everyone is lining up for money lately. The hubs We made some real bad investments. I wanna be bailed out! Don’t you?
Also, this definition and its origin made me look up “groats” which I know as food, like oat groats (which the hubs buys so I can break my arm grinding them into oatmeal). Why would someone in the 17th century pawn off fake oatmeal?
See, I’m getting smarter by the second with the weekly words….aren’t you?
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Hey, turns out there’s an online form to apply for government money. I read about it here. Yea, I got your Troubled Asset Recovery Program right here…..
Or, maybe we skip the official route and start making our own brummagem groats. What’d ya say?
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Otherwise, I’m sure that wild mustang would be long gone by now.
This silly thing has been blooming over and over again for the past six months at least. I guess it likes underwatering, overwatering, getting knocked around and banged into, and then totally ignored…. THIS is the kind of hearty plant I need! Where have you been all my life?!
