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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--brummagem This week's theme: Toponyms. brummagem (BRUM-uh-juhm) adjective Cheap and showy. noun Something that is counterfeit or of inferior quality. [After Brummagem, a dialectal form of Birmingham, UK, where counterfeit coins were produced in the 17th century. Brummie is a nickname for someone from Birmingham.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "[My parents were] obsessed with their material possessions, investing them with moral righteousness: no synthetics, no veneer, no brummagem, nothing mass-produced or as seen on TV." Katherine A. Powers; When Things Are in the Saddle; Boston Globe; Nov 19, 2006. X-Bonus Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going. -Christopher Morley, writer (1890-1957)

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