brummagem

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun a city in central England; 2nd largest English city and an important industrial and transportation center
adjective cheap and showy

From Birmingham, England where cheap manufactured goods used to be produced.

These are sometimes converted into nicknames, of improper names: as Bill, Brummagem. — The Comic English Grammar: A New And Facetious Introduction To The English Tongue, Percival Leigh
The best articles for barter I found were axes, knives, combs--especially scurf-combs--and Brummagem beads. — The North-West Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes, Thomas Whiffen
The Lords of Their Hands assembled; from the East and the West they drew-- Baltimore, Lille, and Essen, Brummagem, Clyde, and Crewe. — The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition, Rudyard Kipling

Birmingham

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