bam
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bam
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bam
- Representing a loud noise or heavy impact.
- The wind knocked the tree over last night. Bam! It nearly scared me to death.
- 2007, Joe Biden, Promises to Keep[1], New York: Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 266:
- We all looked up from the maps, silent, and listened to the hurried footsteps in the entryway. They padded up the red carpet, bam-bam-bam, and across the landing and then up the next flight at a gallop, bam-bam-bam.
- Representing a sudden or abrupt occurrence.
- She said she dumped him. Now — bam! — they're back together.
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bam (plural bams)
Etymology 3 edit
Perhaps from bamboozle.
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bam (plural bams)
- (slang, archaic) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
- 1844, John Wilson, Essay on the Genius, and Character of Burns:
- To relieve the tedium he kept plying them with all manner of bams.
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bam (third-person singular simple present bams, present participle bamming, simple past and past participle bammed)
- (slang, archaic) To impose on (someone) by a falsehood; to cheat.
- 1774, Samuel Foote, The Cozeners:
- This is some conspiracy, I suppose, to bam, to chouse me out of my money
- 1747, David Garrick, Miss in Her Teens: or the Medley of Lovers, Act II, in The Plays of David Garrick: A Complete Collection of the Social Satires, French Adaptations, Pantomimes, Christmas and Musical Plays, Preludes, Interludes, and Burlesques, ed. Harry William Pedicord and Fredrick Louis Bergmann, vol. 1 (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1980), 93
- I’ll break a lamp, bully a constable, bam a justice, or bilk a boxkeeper with any man in the liberties of Westminster.
- (slang, archaic) To jeer or make fun of.
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bam (plural bams)
- Abbreviation of bare-arse minimum. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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Etymology edit
Misspelling of English ban. Doublet of ban.
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bam
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bam
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Etymology 1 edit
From Malay bam, from Persian بام (bâm, “ceiling”).[1]
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bam (plural bam-bam, first-person possessive bamku, second-person possessive bammu, third-person possessive bamnya)
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bam (plural bam-bam, first-person possessive bamku, second-person possessive bammu, third-person possessive bamnya)
- bam: boom of a large drum
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- ^ Mohammad Khosh Haikal Azad (2018), “Historical Cultural Linkages between Iran and Southeast Asia: Entered Persian Vocabularies in the Malay Language”, in Journal of Cultural Relation, page 117-144
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- “bam” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Old Frisian edit
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- baem (Late Old Frisian)
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From Proto-West Germanic *baum, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to grow”). Cognates include Old English bēam, Old Saxon bōm and Old Dutch bōm.
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bām m
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Declension of bām (masculine a-stem) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | bām | bāmar, bāma |
genitive | bāmes | bāma |
dative | bāme | bāmum, bāmem |
accusative | bām | bāmar, bāma |
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- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN
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bām m
- Alternative form of bom
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From Proto-Khasian *baːm (“to eat”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɓaam (“to chew”). Cognate with Khasi bam, Blang [La Gang] pá̤m, Ngeq baːm.
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bam
- to eat
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bam
- dong, ding dong (used when imitating a clock or watch)
- Synonyms: bim-bam, bim-bam-bom
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- bam in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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bam
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bam (nominative plural bams)