单词 | yam yam |
释义 | yam yamn. British slang (often depreciative). A person from the Black Country in the West Midlands of England.Often identified as usage distinctive to the nearby city of Birmingham. ΚΠ 1995 Re: 50,000 Blues Fans in rec.sport.soccer (Usenet newsgroup) 5 Apr. I bet any real Villa fans who were locked out of this game are also really pleased to know that a Yam Yam got into the game ahead of them. 2002 Times (Nexis) 18 Feb. For 20,000 Yamyams to pass up on a good whinge..had to be seen to be believed. 2014 M. Engel Engel's Eng. (2015) xxxiv. 428 Brummies are particularly prone to patronise their Black Country neighbours as ‘yam yams’. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1995 |
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