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Bim1|bɪm|
Also Bimm.
Colloq. name for an inhabitant of Barbados. So ˈBimshire, Barbados.
1852C. W. Day Five Yrs. W. Indies I. 15 The Barbadians are familiarly known as ‘Bimms’. 1859Trollope West Indies xiii. 207 One soon learns to know a—Bim. That is the name in which they themselves delight, and therefore, though there is a sound of slang about it, I give it here. Ibid. 208 The Bims..are generally stout fellows. 1887W. A. Paton Down the Islands (1888) xii. 135 Barbadoes is known to the initiated as Bimshire—a Barbadian as a Bim. 1902Daily Chron. 1 Feb. 5/1 Mr. Bosanquet's team of English cricketers, which has lately been playing in Barbados, and making but an indifferent show before the doughty ‘Bims’. |