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BRUH-ma-juhm
adjective
something cheap and flashy; something dazzling but inferior
1849CaliforniaCarts were passing to and fro; groups of Indians squatting on their haunches were chattering together, and displaying to one another the flaring red and yellow handkerchiefs, the scarlet blankets, and muskets of the most worthless Brummagem make, for which they had been exchanging their bits of gold, while their squaws looked on with the most perfect indifference.1918In Defense of WomenThey know that they can get what they want without going to the actual polls for it; moreover, they are out of sympathy with most of the brummagem reforms advocated by the professional suffragists, male and female.1920The Beautiful and DamnedThey name these brummagem cabarets after Pullman cars.Labels: F. Scott Fitzgerald, H. L. Mencken, J. Tyrwhitt Brooks
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